The Dig: American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Jacobin Radio
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Do We Need Codes of Conduct and Laws of War?
You write that VA psychologists are frustrated with the kind of codes of conduct and laws of war. This idea is caught up, you say, in a notion of the US troop as a liberal subject confronting an illiberal other. You follow Andrew Bessifitch in calling this quote, the new American militarism. What makes it new? And what does this newAmerican militarism maybe say about American liberalism?
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