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by Bernard E. Harcourt


  insurgent minority and, 10, 42, 72, 106

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

  laws, 69, 105, 106, 107

  legal system and, 61, 63–72, 76, 83, 106–108, 222

  masculinity and, 114–118

  memos, 66–72

  in modern warfare, 38–45, 48

  oversight, history of, 69–70

  psychological effects of administering, 83–84

  psychology and, 62–63, 68, 83–84, 117

  race and, 118–120

  of slaves, 69–70, 99, 104–106, 108–112

  techniques, 1–2, 39–41, 61–65, 68–70, 73–75, 77, 100, 101, 109, 113, 204, 206

  of women, 69–70, 115, 117

  See also indefinite detention

  Torture and Truth (duBois), 104

  torturers

  psychology of, 83–84

  women, 117

  total information. See information, total

  Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, 58–59

  Trinquier, Roger, 20, 24, 29, 37, 89, 103

  domestication of counterinsurgency warfare and, 195

  guerrilla-style antiguerrilla tactics and, 28, 45

  on terrorism, 38, 102, 114

  torture and, 38–39, 42, 43

  Trotsky, Leon, 23

  Trump, Donald, 11, 92, 207–212

  counterinsurgency warfare and, 14–15

  Counterrevolution and, 207–212

  drone strikes and, 78

  Guantánamo Bay and, 76

  Muslims and, 151, 163, 174–178, 190, 207

  with politics as spectacle, 184, 189–190, 210–212

  torture and, 113

  trust, domestic surveillance and, 147

  truth, 187

  with denial and distraction, 181–182

  of terror, 103–106

  Twitter, 59, 97, 154, 184, 191

  tyranny, Counterrevolution as, 247

  unconventional warfare, 10, 19, 20, 33, 240

  United States (US), 1–2, 16, 46, 131, 214

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

  drone strikes on citizens, 125–127, 226–228

  FISC, 3–4, 146, 163, 202

  See also military, US

  United States of America v. Sum of $70,990,605, et al., 94

  United We Dream, 253

  UPSTREAM program, NSA and, 4, 58, 153, 200

  US. See United States

  USA FREEDOM ACT, 158–159

  USA PATRIOT Act, Section 215, 3–4, 6, 11, 58, 60, 145, 218

  use of force, against citizens, 129–131, 140

  See also police, counterinsurgency warfare and

  Van Dyke, Jason, 170

  Velasco, Jesús R., 107, 255

  Vendée rebellion, 27

  Verizon, 145

  Vermeule, Adrian, 220

  Vidal-Naquet, Pierre, 253

  Vietnam, 10, 28, 46, 117, 208

  counterinsurgency strategies in, 12, 136

  counterinsurgency warfare in, 20, 31, 32, 33–34, 45

  virtual democracy, 189

  Vista, 209

  voting, 188–189, 211–212

  War by Other Means: Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency (Gompert and Gordon), 241

  War Crimes Act, 67

  War on Crime, 9, 139, 142

  War on Drugs, 9, 142–143

  War on Poverty, 9, 139, 142, 203

  warfare

  counterrevolutionary, 27–28

  guerrilla, 26–28, 45

  nuclear, 19–20

  psychological, 26, 43, 90, 95–98, 103

  revolutionary warfare, 24–27, 47, 195

  unconventional, 10, 19, 20, 33, 240

  See also counterinsurgency warfare; domestication, of counterinsurgency warfare; modern warfare; police, counterinsurgency warfare and

  warrants, 59–60, 163

  Washington Post, 4, 131, 132, 142, 155 (fig.), 171, 221

  “Weed and Seed” approach, 142–143

  Weinstein, Warren, 126

  Wenders, Wim, 82

  William of Ockham, 249–254

  Williams, Kristian, 257

  Wilson, Darren, 170

  Wilson, James Q., 141

  winning, 112–114

  See also population, winning hearts and minds of

  women, 69–70, 115, 117, 211

  XKeyscore program, 4

  Yacef, Saadi, 41, 103

  Yahoo, working with NSA, 4, 59, 153, 154

  Yemen, drone strikes in, 2–3, 11, 78, 81, 82, 126

  Yoo, John, 67–68, 220

  YouTube, 4, 154, 184, 187, 191

  Zakaria, Fareed, 221, 293

  Zero Dark Thirty (film), 77

  Žižek, Slavoj, 77, 219

  Zubaydah, Abu, 63–65, 68

 

 

 


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