Stripping bare the body
Subtitle: politics, violence, war
By: Mark Danner.
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781568584133
Subjects: Violence -- Political aspects; Torture -- Political aspects; Militarism -- United States; Military history, Modern -- 20th century; Military history, Modern -- 21st century; Haiti -- History -- 1986-; Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 1989-; Iraq War, 2003-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-; United States -- Military policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Louis Begley; title: Introduction / by author; title: Beyond the mountains; title: La parenthèse; title: The legacy; title: The mountains; title: The saddest story; title: How not to stop a war; title: Cleansing, camps, and genocide; title: "Safe areas" and the politics of gesture; title: Explosion in the marketplace; title: The great betrayal; title: To the killing fields; title: Operation Storm and the cold peace; title: Coda: Endgame in Kosovo; title: Marooned in the Cold War; title: The forever war; title: The battleground in the American mind; title: Struggles of democracy and empire; title: How not to win a war; title: Delusions in Baghdad; title: Abu Ghraib : the hidden story; title: A doctrine left behind; title: We are all torturers now; title: The real election; title: The secret way to war; title: Taking stock of the forever war; title: The war of the imagination; title: Words in a time of war; title: Voices from the black sites; title: The Red Cross report and what it means; title: Into the light? : torture, power, and the real American exception; title: Afterword: The erotic pull of the strange.