The Theater of Operations
Title | The Theater of Operations PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Masco |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2014-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822375990 |
How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations. Tracing how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American social contract, Masco draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats—real, imagined, and emergent.
Theater of Operations
Title | Theater of Operations PDF eBook |
Author | Zainab Bahrani |
Publisher | P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780996893084 |
This exhibition catalogue, accompanying the major building-wide exhibition Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, includes four new commissioned texts by scholars of Iraqi art Zainab Bahrani, Rijin Sahakian, and Nada Shabout, as well as a media-focused critique from McKenzie Wark. The book will also feature essays from our curators Ruba Katrib and Peter Eleey, as well as critical reproductions from contemporaneous media artifacts, ranging from the Baghdad Diaries--the personal diaries during Iraqi occupation and sanction of artist Nuha Al-Radi--as well as entries from the still-anonymous blogger Riverbend's Baghdad Burning blog chronicling her time living under occupation, as well as texts from Serge Daney, Jean Baudrillard. As this conflict was the first to disseminate via a 24hr televised news cycle, this publication examines the impact of this period of ongoing conflict and its pervasive effects on visual culture.
The Supreme Command
Title | The Supreme Command PDF eBook |
Author | Forrest C. Pogue |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 652 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Military planning |
ISBN |
A description of General Eisenhower's wartime command, focusing on the general, his staff, and his superiors in London and Washington and contrasting Allied and enemy command organizations.
German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945 [Illustrated Edition]
Title | German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945 [Illustrated Edition] PDF eBook |
Author | Earl Ziemke |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 2015-11-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782899774 |
[Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.
Salerno to Cassino
Title | Salerno to Cassino PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Blumenson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 516 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations 1941–43
Title | US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations 1941–43 PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon L. Rottman |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 97 |
Release | 2013-02-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472802209 |
The outbreak of World War II set in motion a massive expansion of the United States Marine Corps, leading to a 24-fold increase in size by August 1945. This book is the first of several volumes to examine the Corps's meteoric wartime expansion and the evolution of its units. It covers the immediate pre-war period, the rush to deploy defense forces in the war's early months, and the Marines' first combat operations on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, and Bougainville. It focuses on the 1st, 2d, and 3d Marine Divisions (MarDivs) and the provisional 1st, 2d, and 3d Marine Brigades (MarBdes).
Theater of a Separate War
Title | Theater of a Separate War PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas W. Cutrer |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 609 |
Release | 2023-04-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469666286 |
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the Trans-Mississippi Theater was site of major clashes from the war's earliest days through the surrenders of Confederate generals Edmund Kirby Smith and Stand Waite in June 1865. In this comprehensive military history of the war west of the Mississippi River, Thomas W. Cutrer shows that the theater's distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.