The rhetorical invention of America's national security state

The rhetorical invention of America's national security state / Marouf Hasain Jr., Sean Lawson, and Megan McFarlane.

The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State uses a broad range of materials, including technical, journalistic, entertainment, academic, and legal sources to explore the role of rhetoric in the expansion and maintenance of America's national security state. It helps audie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr (Author), Lawson, Sean T., 1977- (Author), McFarlane, Megan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
Series:Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.
Subjects:
National security > Social aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Military policy
Rhetoric > Political aspects
United States > Military policy.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The rhetorical origins of America's national security state
  • Military "science" and the legitimation of preventive war, mass surveillance, and kill/capture counterterrorism
  • The department of defense, the CIA, and the legitimation of America's "enhanced interrogation techniques"
  • Remembering the rise of America's special forces and the rhetorical force behind the Navy Seal's raid on Bin Laden's Abbottabad
  • Cyber war, threat inflation, and the securitization of everyday life
  • The "stress" of remotely pilot aircraft crews and the biopolitical normalization of America's "precise" drone attacks overseas
  • Edward Snowden, agent provocateur, and overreactions of the NSA
  • Anticipating the future rhetorical trajectories of America's national security state.

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