Time in the shadows
Book • 2012
Laleh Khalili's 'Time in the Shadows' examines the evolution of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism tactics employed by the United States and Israel, linking modern methods to earlier colonial practices.
Through archival and field research, Khalili traces doctrines, training, and institutional transfers that shaped security practices across regions.
The book demonstrates how counterinsurgency rationales justified repression and covert operations while being packaged as professional military science.
It highlights the human costs of these practices and the political structures that sustain them.
Khalili's analysis situates contemporary security regimes within longer histories of imperial governance.
Through archival and field research, Khalili traces doctrines, training, and institutional transfers that shaped security practices across regions.
The book demonstrates how counterinsurgency rationales justified repression and covert operations while being packaged as professional military science.
It highlights the human costs of these practices and the political structures that sustain them.
Khalili's analysis situates contemporary security regimes within longer histories of imperial governance.
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