Lawyers have become more and more integrated into military, not just planning, but literally at the level of operations. This idea is caught up in a notion of the US troop as a liberal subject confronting an illiberal other. The very capacity to suffer trauma in this instance, as moral injury emerges as evidence of the perpetrators humanity.
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity politics—and more. The second in a two-part interview.
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