Part I. The rise of modern warfare -- Counterinsurgency is political -- A Janus-faced paradigm -- Part II. A triumph in foreign policy -- Total information awareness -- Indefinite detention and drone killings -- Winning hearts and minds -- Governing through terror -- Part III. The domestication of counterinsurgency -- Counterinsurgency comes home -- Surveilling Americans -- Targeting Americans -- Distracting Americans -- Part IV. From counterinsurgency to the counterrevolution -- The counterrevolution is born -- A state of legality -- A new system.
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"Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States--one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror"--Amazon.com.
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Title
Counterrevolution.
International Standard Book Number
9781541697270
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Civil-military relations-- United States.
Counterinsurgency-- United States.
Electronic surveillance-- United States.
Civil-military relations.
Counterinsurgency.
Electronic surveillance.
LAW-- Civil Rights.
PHILOSOPHY-- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Security (National & International)