American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
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The Civilian Military Divide Is Not Simply Descriptive
The US does not fight its wars on its own soil. It is not done so for well over a century or more, right? And so there's a whole imaginary of war in this country in which it is soldiers who experience and know war because they go way far away to fight them. So what does that mean? There's so much public conversation and scholarship that has been concerned with the stereotype of the soldier. But it really struck me that this figure of the civilian is a deeply stereotyped figure as well.
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