What happens when a drone enters a gallery or appears on screen? What thresholds are crossed as this weapon of war occupies everyday visual culture? These questions have appeared with increasing regularity since the advent of the War on Terror, when drones began migrating into civilian platforms of film, photography, installation, sculpture, performance art, and theater. In this groundbreaking study, Thomas Stubblefield attempts not only to defi ...
The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? <I>Pacifying the Homeland </I>travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, loo ...
В учебнике изложены вопросы становления и развития концепта стратегической культуры (СК) с середины ХХ в. и до наших дней. Показана методология учета особенностей СК государств и их коалиций в процессе выполнения политиками, дипломатами и военными международно-политического анализа реалий современного мира и выработки стратегический решений. Отражены влияние на трансформацию СК радикальных изменений системы обеспечения международной безопасности ...
Violence and war have raged between Zionists and Palestinians for over a century, ever since Zionists, trying to establish a nation-state in Palestine, were forced to confront the fact that the country was already populated. Covering every conflict in Israel’s history, <I>War over Peace</I> reveals that Israeli nationalism was born ethnic and militaristic and has embraced these characteristics to this day. In his sweeping a ...
In this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo—young people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution. Seymour, a former child protection adviser and human rights investigator for the United Nations, chronicles her per ...
Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike. <I>Traumatic Imprints </I>traces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along with links to formal and narra ...
The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The army, navy, and air force put films to work in myriad ways, enlisting them to entertain, train, and heal soldiers as well as to propagandize, strategize, spy, map, and develop weapons, from rifles to atomic bombs. Presenting new essays based on archival research, <I>Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex</I& ...
В данный многотомник вошли биографии военачальников, которые с 1921 по 1945 гг. занимали должности помощников и заместителей командиров дивизий кавалерийских, стрелковых, горнострелковых, мотострелковых. Биографии составлены на базе учетно-послужных карт офицерского состава и списков командно-начальствующего состава Красной Армии. Многие биографии публикуются впервые. В 22 том вошли биографии на букву К (часть 5).
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В данный многотомник вошли биографии военачальников, которые с 1921 по 1945 гг. занимали должности помощников и заместителей командиров дивизий кавалерийских, стрелковых, горнострелковых, мотострелковых. Биографии составлены на базе учетно-послужных карт офицерского состава и списков командно-начальствующего состава Красной Армии. Многие биографии публикуются впервые. В 21 том вошли биографии на букву К (часть 4).
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