The Dig: Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Jacobin Radio
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The New American Militarism
The War on Terror has for two decades been simultaneously foundational to what the United States is and strikingly absent in so many ways from American life and politics. In combat trauma, imaginaries of war and citizenship in post 9-11 America, anthropologist Nadia Abu Al-Haj writes one of the most important books about this new era of American militarism. We discuss how anti-war veterans and psychiatrists during the Vietnam War developed the idea that US troops were traumatized by perpetrating atrocities against Vietnamese people.
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