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The Counterrevolution

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by Bernard E. Harcourt


  Comprehensive Crime Control Act (1984), 142

  Congressional Digest, 132

  La conquête de la Chine par Mao Tsé-Toung (1945–1949) (Chassin), 25

  Consequence (Fair), 83–84

  consumption, with “Damn, Daniel!,” 193

  continuous assessment, 242

  costs

  Afghanistan, 93–95

  Iraq and counterinsurgency, 206

  of police militarization, 131–132

  US military, 208–209

  Council on American-Islamic Relations, 254

  “counterguerrilla” warfare, 27–28

  Counterinsurgency Field Manual. See Army and Marine Corps Field Manual 3-24, US

  counterinsurgency strategies

  defined, 8, 11

  development and refinement of, 14, 136–138

  illusion of insurgency with untethered, 12–13

  against population, general, 13–15, 23

  counterinsurgency theory, 30

  with allegiance of population, 8, 25, 31–32, 37, 89

  with Counterrevolution and SA approach, 240–241, 243–244

  debate, 178–180

  with information, total, 8, 29, 32, 57–60, 87, 182

  with minority insurgent, eradication of, 8, 32, 49, 72

  RAND Corporation on, 60, 240–241, 243–244

  counterinsurgency warfare

  core principles, 31–33

  domestic policy and, 10

  foreign affairs and, 10–11, 87

  genealogies, 23–24

  government modeled on, 6, 8, 9–10, 12, 14–15, 34–35

  in historical context, 19–21, 29

  Mao Zedong with, 20, 21, 24, 33–35

  mindset, 138–143, 167

  politics and, 8, 9–10, 14–15, 34–35

  role of, 25, 37, 45–46, 48–49, 102, 195, 206

  US military and, 10, 13

  See also Army and Marine Corps Field Manual 3-24, US; domestication, of counterinsurgency warfare; police, counterinsurgency warfare and

  Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (Galula), 29–30, 32–33, 47

  The Counterinsurgent’s Constitution: Law in the Age of Small Wars (Sitaraman), 226

  counterintelligence. See intelligence; KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual

  Counterrevolution

  defined, 12, 199

  with illusion of insurgency, 13

  opposition to, 202, 204–207

  as paradigm, new, 199–204

  RAND Corporation and, 233–236, 237 (fig.), 240–241, 243–244

  strategies, 200–201, 204

  support for, 207–212

  as tyranny, 247

  Counterrevolution, legality of

  de-responsibilization with, 230–231

  due process with, 229–230

  illegalisms and, 224–226

  memos on killing and, 226–228

  permanent state of exception and, 213–221

  problem of, 221–223

  state of emergency and, 213–215, 220–221, 223

  Counterrevolution, SA approach to, 239

  OR and, 234–235, 238

  counterinsurgency theory and, 240–241, 243–244

  defined, 236–238

  development, 233–234, 246–247

  logic of, 235–236, 237 (fig.), 243–244

  strategies, 242–246

  US Army and Marine Corps Field Manual 3-24, 242–243, 244 (fig.)

  “counterrevolutionary minority,” 200

  counterrevolutionary warfare, 24–28, 47, 195

  Cover, Robert, 228

  cremation, 62, 63, 76

  crime, 9, 139, 252

  with domestication of counterinsurgency warfare, 129–131, 134–135

  laws, 67, 142

  See also police, counterinsurgency warfare and

  Critical Resistance, 253

  critical theory, drones and, 84–85

  Cuban Missile Crisis, 20

  Cuspert, Denis, 127

  Dallas Police Department, 11, 129–131, 135

  “Damn, Daniel!,” 191–194

  Darwish, Kemal, 126

  data. See information; metadata, domestic surveillance

  Davis, Angela, 253

  de Beauvoir, Simone, 253

  de Blasio, Bill, 139

  de Gaulle, Charles, 28

  “Death from Above, Outrage Down Below” (Kilcullen and Exum), 79, 80

  deaths

  assassinations, 10, 45, 85, 125–127, 226–228

  drone strikes, 3, 78, 80–82, 251

  killing, 3, 5, 77–78, 85–86, 114, 125, 160, 170–173, 174, 226–228

  penalty, 85–86

  slaves, 111

  torture, 62, 63–64

  Debord, Guy, 157

  Defeating Communist Insurgency: The Lessons of Malaya and Vietnam (Thompson, R.), 32

  defense, 46, 131, 229–230

  dehumanization, 118–120

  Deleuze, Gilles, 157

  democracy, 189, 203

  denial, distraction and, 181–182

  Department of Defense, US, 46, 131

  Department of Justice, US, 59, 65, 66, 94, 126, 162

  Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam (McMaster), 208

  de-responsibilization, with legality of Counterrevolution, 230–231

  detention. See indefinite detention

  Digest (Roman law), on torture, 69, 106, 107

  digital

  advertising, 96–97, 153–154, 194

  entrancement of population, 194–195

  profiling, 191, 194

  propaganda, 90, 95–98

  digital life, as distraction

  docility and, 181–182

  obsession with, 183–185, 194–195

  Pokémon GO, 185–186, 191

  politics and, 184, 189–190

  smart phones and, 186–187

  social media and, 182–187, 190–191

  digital life, docility with, 187

  “Damn, Daniel!,” 191–194

  as distraction, 181–182

  politics and, 189–190, 193–194

  disappearances, in Algeria, 41, 44

  Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 182

  distraction. See digital life, as distraction

  docility. See digital life, docility with

  domestic policy, counterinsurgency warfare and, 10

  domestic surveillance. See surveillance, domestic

  domestication, of counterinsurgency warfare

  crime with, 129–131, 134–135

  digital entrancement of population and, 194–195

  digital life as distraction and, 181–187, 189–191, 194–195

  docility with digital life and, 181–182, 187–194

  government repression and, 195–196

  See also police, counterinsurgency warfare and

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 113, 120–122

  Dotson, Sam, 141–142

  drone strikes, 2, 11

  critical theory and, 84–86

  deaths, 3, 78, 80–82, 251

  “kill list,” 77–78

  against minority, insurgent, 10, 77–82

  modern warfare and, 79, 99

  psychology influenced by, 81–84

  on US citizens, 125–127, 226–228

  drones, police, 11, 129–131, 135

  Dronestream, 78

  drugs. See War on Drugs

  duBois, Page, 104

  due process, with legality of Counterrevolution, 229–230

  Durkin, Thomas Anthony, 219–220, 283

  Duterte, Rodrigo, 113–114

  eavesdropping

  NSA program, 145, 152–159

  warrantless, 59–60

  See also surveillance

  “Eight Points of Attention,” for Red Army, 25–26, 93

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 139, 140

  Ellsberg, Daniel, 253

  emergency
. See state of emergency

  Emwazi, Mohammed, 127

  England, Lynndie, 117

  enhanced interrogation. See interrogation, enhanced

  Enthoven, Alain, 234–235

  entrancement, digital, 194–195

  exception. See state of exception, permanent

  Excess Property Program, 131–132, 143

  Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harcourt), 15–16, 156

  expository society, US as, 16

  Exum, Andrew McDonald, 79, 80, 82

  Facebook, 16, 157, 184

  as “counterrevolutionary minority,” 200

  digital propaganda and, 95–96

  NSA working with, 4, 59, 153, 154, 160, 186, 191

  Fagan, Jeffrey, 256, 284

  Fair, Eric, 83–84

  Fall, Bernard, 28–29, 39

  Fanon, Frantz, 253

  Farouq, Ahmed, 126

  Fassin, Didier, 255

  FBI

  with counterinsurgency strategies, 12, 136–138

  interrogation, 61, 63

  Muslims and, 145, 151–152, 162–170

  total information and, 60

  Feinstein, Dianne, 1

  Feldman, Allen, 276

  Feldman, Noah, 130, 278

  Ferguson, Missouri, 7 (photo), 132, 133 (photo), 172–173

  films, 40, 43, 46, 77, 82–83

  FISC. See Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, US

  Fitzpatrick, Benjamin, 111

  Five Eyes, 59

  See also Australia; Canada; Great Britain; New Zealand; United States

  FLN, 39, 42, 63, 98, 103

  force. See use of force, against citizens

  foreign affairs, counterinsurgency warfare and, 10–11, 87

  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, US (FISC), 3–4, 146, 163, 202

  Foucault, Michel, 156, 157, 182, 195–196, 231–232

  on government, 250

  illegalisms and, 224–226

  Fournier, Jacques, 107, 108

  France, 27–28, 79, 214–215, 225

  with counterinsurgency warfare, 20, 24–25, 29, 31, 37, 46, 48–49

  with torture, 38–41, 43

  French Revolutionary Warfare from Indochina to Algeria: The Analysis of a Political and Military Doctrine (Paret), 25, 47

  “The French Army and La Guerre Révolutionnaire” (Paret), 24

  From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime (Hinton), 142

  Gadahn, Adam, 126

  Galula, David, 24, 28–30, 32–33, 46, 91, 147

  on counterinsurgency, 47, 223

  intelligence and, 98

  on population, general, 31, 60

  RAND Corporation and, 241

  torture and, 43–44, 45

  game theory, strategic, 20

  Garner, Eric, 6, 170

  Garza, Alicia, 253

  gender, terror and, 114–120

  genealogies

  counterinsurgency warfare, 23–24

  state of exception, 217–218

  Geneva Conventions, 66–67, 112, 231

  Gerard, Daniel, 141

  Germania, 27, 106

  Gerwehr, Scott, 244–246

  Giuliani, Rudolph, 138, 177

  Gladwell, Malcolm, 268

  Global Engagement Center, 95–97, 98, 187

  Gompert, David, 241

  Gonnerman, Jennifer, 162, 283

  Gonzales, Alberto, 59–60, 67

  González, Marina, 69–70

  Google, 200

  digital propaganda and, 95, 96, 97

  NSA working with, 4, 59, 153, 154, 160, 186

  Gordon, John, 241

  government

  counterinsurgency warfare as model for, 6, 8, 9–10, 12, 14–15, 34–35

  domestication of counterinsurgency warfare with repressive, 195–196

  Foucault on, 250

  with paradigm, new, 199–204

  with tolerance for killing, 85–86

  Great Britain, 20, 23, 28, 59, 127, 234

  Greece, slaves and torture in, 99, 104–105

  Greenberg, Karen, 229, 231

  Greenwald, Glenn, 4, 253

  Guantánamo Bay, 64, 72, 118, 218

  indefinite detention at, 6, 73–77, 205, 251

  torture memos and, 66

  Guantánamo Diary (Slahi), 73–75, 77

  Guardian, 142, 158, 171

  “la guerre révolutionnaire.” See revolutionary warfare

  guerrilla warfare, 26–28, 45

  Guerrillas in the 1960’s (Paret), 27

  Gurley, Akai, 171

  Haight, Charles S., Jr., 151

  Hampton, Fred, 136

  Handschu case, 149, 151

  Hannibal, 139

  Hardt, Michael, 219

  Hayden, Michael, 159

  Hayes, Chris, 172–173, 285

  hearts. See population, winning hearts and minds of

  Hegel, G. W. F., 289

  helicopters, 63, 74, 131, 138, 142

  Here Be Dragons (Baldwin), 117–118

  Herodotus, 23

  Herzing, Rachel, 253

  hierarchy, terror with social, 105–107

  Hill, James T., 231

  Hilliard, Simon, 94

  Hinton, Elizabeth, 142

  Hispanics, targeting of, 11, 13, 118, 142

  Hitch, Charles, 234–235

  Hitler, Adolf, 85, 217

  Holder, Eric, 229

  Hollande, François, 214, 215

  Holocaust, 86, 118, 119

  Holtz, Joshua, 192

  Homeland Security Advisory System, US, 214

  homo sacer, 119

  Homo Sacer (Agamben), 218

  Al Homssi, Amer, 175

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 9, 12, 136, 146

  “horrorism,” 120

  Horton, Alex, 134

  Horton, Scott, 221

  hospital episode (March 10, 2004), 59–60

  How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything (Brooks), 90

  Howard, Michael, 24

  Hudson, Redditt, 135

  Huffington, Arianna, 211

  Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School, 81

  Human Rights Watch, 81

  “humane treatment,” 66

  humans

  dehumanization, 118–120

  experiments, 119

  mapping program, 149, 202

  Hussain, Akbar, 166

  identity card, 60

  illegalisms, with legality of Counterrevolution, 224–226

  immigrants, Pakistan, 164–167

  impressions, digital advertising and, 97

  incarceration, mass, 9, 252

  indefinite detention, 39, 220, 246–247

  efficacy of, 13–14, 74, 99

  at Guantánamo Bay, 6, 73–77, 205, 251

  for insurgent minority, 10, 74, 101

  Indochina, 47, 63

  counterinsurgency warfare in, 20, 24, 25, 102, 195, 206

  guerrilla-style antiguerrilla tactics in, 28, 45

  information

  digital propaganda and digesting of, 97–98

  expunged from US Army and Marine Corps Field Manual 3-24, 49

  torture for, 60–61, 106

  information, total

  counterinsurgency theory and, 8, 29, 32, 57–60, 87, 182

  Counterrevolution with, 200

  digital life with docility and, 191

  with hospital episode (March 10, 2004), 59–60

  Pokémon GO and collection of, 157, 186

  TIA program, 58–59

  torture and interrogation with, 60–66

  torture memos and, 66–72

  infrastructure, 10, 90–95

  inquisition. See Spanish Inquisition

  Instagram, 154, 184, 191

  Instructions of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Argüello), 107

  insurgency, 12–13

  See also counterinsurgency strategies; minority, insurgent

  intelligence, 1–2, 10, 64, 98

&nbs
p; 9/11 and failure of, 57, 61

  signal intelligence programs, 4, 11, 58, 153, 159

  US FISC, 3–4, 146, 163, 202

  See also information

  interrogation

  FBI, 61, 63

  manual, 64

  police, 38, 39–40, 69, 168, 169 (photo)

  Spanish Inquisition, 69–70, 106–108, 120–122

  torture and, 44, 57–58, 60–66, 69–70

  interrogation, enhanced

  justification for, 65–66, 210, 220

  legal system and, 66, 226

  psychological effects of administering, 83–84

  role of, 242–243

  techniques, 54, 61

  See also torture

  IP address, 4, 60

  Iraq, 10, 81–82, 92, 95, 141, 206

  Irish Republican Army, 12, 23, 138

  ISIS, 97, 100, 117, 204, 206, 216

  Islamic State, 205, 207

  Jaffer, Jameel, 259, 294

  Japanese Americans, 176

  Johnson, Lyndon B, 9, 208, 239

  Johnson, Micah, 129–131

  Jones, Van, 190

  Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, 24

  justice, 46, 131, 219–220

  See also Department of Justice, US

  Justinian (Roman emperor), 69, 106

  Khalili, Laleh, 269

  Kelling, George, 141

  Kelly, John F., 14, 208

  Kelly, Ray, 139

  Kelsen, Hans, 217

  Kennebeck, Sonia, 82–83

  Kennedy, John F., 238, 240

  Kennedy, Ted, 161

  Khan, Hafiz, 164–165

  Khan, Irfan, 165–167, 178

  Khan, Izhar, 163, 164–167, 178

  Khan, Samir, 126

  Kilcullen, David, 79, 80, 82

  killing, 85–86, 114, 160

  “kill list,” 3, 77–78

  memos, 125, 226–228

  police shootings, 5, 7 (photo), 132, 133 (photo), 142, 148, 170–174

  See also deaths

  King, Martin Luther, 146, 203

  “knowledge is power” (scientia est potentia), 58

  KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual (1963), 64

  Kutz, Christopher, 293

  Lara, Daniel, 191–194

  Lawless, Joseph, 256, 287

  Lawrence, T. E., 23, 27

  laws, 67, 135, 142, 219, 226, 228

  domestic surveillance, 146, 158–159

  NDAA, 229–230

  permanent state of exception and, 215–221

  torture, 69, 105, 106, 107

  USA FREEDOM ACT, 158–159

  USA PATRIOT Act, 3–4, 6, 11, 58, 60, 145, 218

  Lazreg, Marnia, 115, 117

  Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, 107, 108

  Lee, Martin, 241

  legal system, 44

  enhanced interrogation and, 66, 226

  terror of slavery and, 108–112

  torture and, 61, 63–72, 76, 83, 106–108, 222

  See also Counterrevolution, legality of

  Lejeune, Max, 41

  Levi, Primo, 119

  LGBTQ community, 15

  Liberty and Security in a Changing World (report), 159

 

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