The rhetorical invention of America's national security state /
Hasain, Marouf,Jr.,author.
Lawson, Sean T.,1977-author.
McFarlane, Megan,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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" -- 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 piloted 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 of America's national security state.
National security
Rhetoric