Ouroboros : understanding the war machine of liberalism /
This book analyzes how the cost of 'small' wars drives the state to choose remote war and preemption in order to hide the conflict from its domestic populations. This is explained through understanding security mechanisms and how Clausewitzian war machine powers extend Liberalism into the...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Liberalism, the state, and war
- Explaining Clausewitzian power
- The security dispositif as an ordering framework
- The domestic and the periphery
- The origins of the war machine
- How the war machine become permanent
- Key components of Clausewitzian war
- The problem with Clauswitzian war and the trinity
- How the singularity is revealed
- The uninhibited partisan, terror and force
- Algeria and the ordering of society
- Vietnam and the immediate threat
- Afghanistan and killing a war machine
- 9/11 and comparative advantage
- Crux
- Problems with preemption
- Preemption as method
- Generating certainty
- Liberalism and the war machine
- The singularity
- Preemption as imperative
- The ouroboros.