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...Mario Di Lauro © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 “British Troops Conduct Counter Taliban Operations,” Mario Di Lauro. Courtesy Getty Images. ...

... and femininities, to the African troops whose affective and violent labor sustains war making in Somalia. Far from a celebration of subaltern agency, the article engages the notion of a “subaltern geopolitics” that is mindful of asymmetries of power and that foregrounds ambiguous positions of marginality...

... of Nationalism . London : Verso . Barbeau Arthur E. Henri Florette 1996 . The Unknown Soldiers: African-American Troops in World War I . New York : Da Capo Press . Blum Edward J. Stauffer John 2015 . Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865...

... extended into Europe. Inspired by Spain’s Moorish past, these black fighters hoped to rescue tolerant, pluralist Spain from the gathering flames of European fascism. Many were thus stunned by Franco’s use of Moorish troops in his anticommunist “crusade,” by the rabid anti-Muslim racism...

.... E. Lawrence, had as far back as the 1920s articulated three factors required for guerrilla warfare: first, the algebraic (of spaces to be traveled, territory, and number of troops); second, the biological (which includes the extent of endurance...

... against Terrorism) who used rape (often followed by execution) in a systematic way as a form of torture. Captured women, suspected of belonging to the SL or of aiding them, were handed over to the troops, whereupon they were submitted to mass rape...

... European troops, were needed to control large colonial cities like Cairo, Havana, Bombay, Manila, or even Dublin. In part this was because of the existence of large comprador middle classes, whose nationalism, if it existed, usually took cautious, incremental, and nonviolent forms. But many...

... Bush see the technologically created corpse as a political actor and special effect. (Karadzic’s troops terrorized Sarajevans with long-distance assassination by telescopic sniping.) They epitomize the new politics of “first-person...

... illness among the nearly 700,000 U.S. troops who served in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq.”11 Fueled by fears that Iraqis would use chemical and biological weapons, the U.S. military inoculated its soldiers with experi- mental drug cocktails. And to blast Iraqi tanks sky high, the Pentagon issued...

..., but in the firefight that ensues, a number of civilians who do not get out of the neighborhood’s crowded streets in time are wounded. How will the residents of the area react to these civilian casualties? Will an angry crowd gather to condemn the U.S. occupation and attack any troops remaining...

... support projects of reunification.1 Until the end of the twentieth century, the area north of Seoul near the DMZ was considered too dangerous for substantial settlement. Belying its name, the DMZ abounds with land mines. Military troops have continued to man the border, while the United States has...

.... These wars promoted the suspension of liberties in the name of liberty, whether by using federal troops for drug twenty-five years, interdiction or usurping the authority of local school districts. Even natural disasters that could place populations at risk...

... and the Contemporary Arts of War,” forthcoming in PMLA, 2010. 37. Deborah Amos, “Iraqi Interpreters Grateful for U.S. Troops’ Support,” National Public Radio, 17 October 2007; Joseph B. Frazier (for Associated Press), “Oregon Guardsman...

... Language Center in Monterey, California; its motto is “Defending Freedom through Linguistic Readi- ness.”13 However, with the troop surges demanded by counterinsurgency starting in 2005, there emerged the pressing need to develop more lan...

... to be known as chaklas. The closely guarded chaklas were set up under strict vigil of brothel keepers and the police in cantonment areas where European troops were stationed. Every such brothel had high walls and small carefully...

... 122 C. Nadia Seremetakis ST 68-06 Seremetakis 10/25/01 3:07 PM Page 123 troops to abandoned NATO radioactive bombs. The reportage focused on the few friends waiting for them, with no sign of any official, which was in stark contrast...

...” in Washington, DC, to the African troops and political elites who co-constitute geographies of global warfare. In doing so, we aim to analyze the varied logics of security regimes in a transnational context. We embrace both temporal and spatial promiscuity in the interest of theorizing security across...

... mandatory overtime costs for police and National Guard troops that reach into the millions to pay for further militarization of daily life.6 While the security state has been amass- ing its forces, it has not so stealthily reached the other...

... that connotes strategic warfare, it becomes possible to enter imaginatively into the decision making undertaken by the insurgents and by the troops intent on destroying them. While there may be much to distinguish rebelling slaves from the British military...

... commerce, while the commercial roads were often used for the transit of troops, stores and ammunitions.28 Lastly, it [the GT Road] is the great outlet and channel for the import and export trade between India, Central...