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American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

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The New American Militarism

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.

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