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Bugsplat
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Author : Bruce Cronin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-07
Bugsplat written by Bruce Cronin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-07 with Political Science categories.
Why do states who are committed to the principle of civilian immunity and the protection of non-combatants end up killing and injuring large numbers of civilians during their military operations? Bugsplat explains this paradox through an in-depth examination of five conflicts fought by Western powers since 1989. It argues that despite the efforts of Western military organizations to comply with the laws of armed conflict, the level of collateral damage produced by Western military operations is the inevitable outcome of the strategies and methods through which their military organizations fight wars. Drawing on their superior technology and the strategic advantage of not having to fight on their own territory, such states employ highly-concentrated and overwhelming military force against a wide variety of political, economic, and military targets under conditions likely to produce high civilian casualties. As a result, collateral damage in western-fought wars is largely both foreseeable and preventable. The book title is derived from the name of a computer program that had been used by the Pentagon to calculate probable civilian casualties prior to launching air attacks.
Talking Conflict
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Author : Anna M. Wittmann
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Talking Conflict written by Anna M. Wittmann and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Political Science categories.
In today's information era, the use of specific words and language can serve as powerful tools that incite violence—or sanitize and conceal the ugliness of war. This book examines the complex, "twisted" language of conflict. Why is the term "collateral damage" used when military strikes kill civilians? What is a "catastrophic success"? What is the difference between a privileged and unprivileged enemy belligerent? How does deterrence differ from detente? What does "hybrid warfare" mean, and how is it different from "asymmetric warfare"? How is shell shock different from battle fatigue and PTSD? These are only a few of the questions that Talking Conflict: The Loaded Language of Genocide, Political Violence, Terrorism, and Warfare answers in its exploration of euphemisms, "warspeak," "doublespeak," and propagandistic terms. This handbook of alphabetically listed entries is prefaced by an introductory overview that provides background information about how language is used to obfuscate or minimize descriptions of armed conflict or genocide and presents examples of the major rhetorical devices used in this subject matter. The book focuses on the "loaded" language of conflict, with many of the entries demonstrating the function of given terms as euphemisms, propaganda, or circumlocutions. Each entry is accompanied by a list of cross references and "Further Reading" suggestions that point readers to pertinent sources for further research. This book is ideal for students—especially those studying political science, international relations, and genocide—as well as general readers.
Kill Boxes Facing The Legacy Of Us Sponsored Torture Indefinite Detention And Drone Warfare
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Author : Elisabeth Weber
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Kill Boxes Facing The Legacy Of Us Sponsored Torture Indefinite Detention And Drone Warfare written by Elisabeth Weber and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Kill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them.Beginning with an analysis of the ways in which the hooded man from Abu Ghraib became iconic, subsequent chapters take up less culturally visible scenes of massive violations of human rights to bring us face to face with these shocks and the forms of recognition that they enable and disavow. We are addressed in the photo of the hooded man, all the more so as he was brutally prevented, in our name, from returning the camera's and thus our gaze. We are addressed in the screams that turn a person, tortured in our name, into howling flesh. We are addressed in poems written in the Guantánamo Prison camp, however much American authorities try to censor them, in our name. We are addressed by the victims of the US drone wars, however little American citizens may have heard the names of the places obliterated by the bombs for which their taxes pay. And we know that we are addressed in spite of a number of strategies of brutal refusal of heeding those calls.Providing intensive readings of philosophical texts by Jean Améry, Jacques Derrida, and Christian Thomasius, with poetic texts by Franz Kafka, Paul Muldoon, and the poet-detainees of Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp, and with artistic creations by Sallah Edine Sallat, the American artist collective Forkscrew and an international artist collective from Pakistan, France and the US, Kill Boxes demonstrates the complexity of humanistic responses to crimes committed in the name of national security. The conscious or unconscious knowledge that we are addressed by the victims of these crimes is a critical factor in discussions on torture, on indefinite detention without trial, as practiced in Guantánamo, and in debates on the strategies to circumvent the latter altogether, as practiced in drone warfare and its extrajudicial assassination program.The volume concludes with an Afterword by Richard Falk.
Sudden Justice
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Author : Chris Woods (Journalist)
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015
Sudden Justice written by Chris Woods (Journalist) and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Explores the secretive history of the United States' use of armed drones and their key role not only on today's battlefields, but also in a covert targeted killing project that has let to the deaths of thousands. There is a covert war, one in which drones scour the skies of Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia in search of militant and terrorist targets
Biopolitics Of The More Than Human
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Author : Joseph Pugliese
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-23
Biopolitics Of The More Than Human written by Joseph Pugliese and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-23 with Political Science categories.
In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining occupied Palestine, Guantánamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans. He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains of biopolitics and law.
Technical Digest
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Author : Naval Surface Warfare Center (U.S.). Dahlgren Division
language : en
Publisher:
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Technical Digest written by Naval Surface Warfare Center (U.S.). Dahlgren Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Naval research categories.
Technical Digest
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Technical Digest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with National security categories.
Duane Bibby S Bugsplat Flats
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Author : Duane Bibby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Duane Bibby S Bugsplat Flats written by Duane Bibby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Graphic novels categories.
Up on two wheels, a hole digging, guitar carrying cowboy on a mission of retrieval searches the west of gamblers, bankers, motorcycles, and dubious flying machines.
Computer Game Development And Animation
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Author : Tracy Brown Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-01-15
Computer Game Development And Animation written by Tracy Brown Hamilton and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-15 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Welcome to the Computer Game Development & Animation field! If you are interested in a career in the computer gaming field, you’ve come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in these fields? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various fields? Is this even the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these questions and more. This book, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers the following areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions. Artist/Animator Producer Sound Designer Video Game Designer Video Game Developer Video Game Tester Writer
Drone Warfare And Lawfare In A Post Heroic Age
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Author : Marouf Hasian
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2016-01-15
Drone Warfare And Lawfare In A Post Heroic Age written by Marouf Hasian and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age posits a framework for the scholarly community, policy makers, and lay readers for understanding the legal and military aspects of drone warfare.