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The Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized
Scahill, Jeremy
http://theintercept.com/2018/11/25/counterinsurgency-us-drone-strikes/Date Written: 2018-11-25 Publisher: The Intercept Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23091 Bernard Harcourt argues in his recent book "The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens" that the same counterinsurgency paradigm of warfare used against post-9/11 enemies has now come to the US as the effective governing strategy. Abstract: -- Excerpt: Torture, indefinite detention, extraordinary renditions, record numbers of deportations, anti-Muslim sentiment, mass foreign and domestic surveillance, and even the killing of innocent family members of suspected terrorists all have a recent historical precedent... And steadily, all of the counterinsurgency tactics of these foreign wars have crept back home. |