How 9/11 changed our ways of war / / edited by James Burk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462984803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-8047-8852-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BurkJames <1948->
• Disciplina: 355/.033573
• Soggetti: Military art and science - United States; Military art and science; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence; Electronic books.; United States Military policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The end of (military) history? : the demise of the western way of war / Andrew J. Bacevich -- Assessing strategic choices in the War on Terror / Stephen Biddle and Peter D. Feaver -- The rise, persistence, and decline of the "War on Terror" / Ronald R. Krebs -- Odysseus prevails over Achilles : a warrior model suited to post-9/11 conflicts / Joseph Soeters -- What "success" means in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya / Christopher Dandeker -- Torture, harm, and the prospect of moral repair / James Burk -- Isomorphism within NATO? : soldiers and armed forces before and after 9/11 / Gerhard Kümmel -- The mobilization of private forces after 9/11 : ad hoc response to poor planning / Deborah Avant -- Globalization and Al Qaeda's challenge to American unipolarity / Pascal Vennesson.
• Sommario/riassunto: Following the 9/11 attacks, a war against al Qaeda by the U.S. and its liberal democratic allies was next to inevitable. But what kind of war would it be, how would it be fought, for how long, and what would it cost in lives and money? None of this was known at the time. What came to be known was that the old ways of war must change—but how? Now, with over a decade of political decision-making and warfighting to analyze, How 9/11 Changed Our Ways of War addresses that ; question. In particular it assesses how well those ways of war, adapted to fight terrorism, affect our military capacity to protect and sustain liberal democratic values. The book pursues three themes: what shaped the strategic choice to go to war; what force was used to wage the war; and what resources were needed to carry on the fight? In each case, military effectiveness required new and strict limits on the justification, use, and support of force. How to identify and observe these limits is a matter debated by the various contributors. Their debate raises questions about waging future wars—including how to defend against and control the use of drones, cyber warfare, and targeted assassinations. The contributors include historians, political scientists, and sociologists; both academics and practitioners.

Fat-talk nation : the human costs of America's war on fat / / Susan Greenhalgh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461128703321
• Autore: Greenhalgh Susan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8014-5644-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 613.2/5
• Soggetti: Weight loss - United States; Weight loss - Social aspects - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1. The Politics and Culture of Fat in America -- 1. A Biocitizenship Society to Fight Fat -- 2. Creating Thin, Fit Bodies -- Part 2. My BMI, My Self -- 3. "Obese" -- 4. "Overweight" -- 5. "Underweight" -- 6. "Normal" -- Part 3. Uncharted Costs and Unreachable Goals -- 7. Physical and Mental Health At Risk -- 8. Families and Relationships Unhinged -- 9. Does Biocitizenship ; Help the Very Fat? -- Part 4. What Now? -- 10. Social Justice and the End of the War on Fat -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant "fat talk" aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness to the nation, but little about the dangers of today's epidemic of fat talk to individuals and society at large. The human trauma caused by the war on fat is disturbing-and it is virtually unknown. How do those who do not fit the "ideal" body type feel being the object of abuse, discrimination, and even revulsion? How do people feel being told they are a burden on the healthcare system for having a BMI outside what is deemed-with little solid scientific evidence-"healthy"? How do young people, already prone to self-doubt about their bodies, withstand the daily assault on their body type and sense of self-worth? In Fat-Talk Nation, Susan Greenhalgh tells the story of today's fight against excess pounds by giving young people, the campaign's main target, an opportunity to speak about experiences that have long lain hidden in silence and shame. Featuring forty-five autobiographical narratives of personal struggles with diet, weight, "bad BMIs," and eating disorders, Fat-Talk Nation shows how the war on fat has produced a generation of young people who are obsessed with their bodies and whose most fundamental sense of self comes from their size. It reveals that regardless of their weight, many people feel miserable about their bodies, and almost no one is able to lose weight and keep it off. Greenhalgh argues that attempts to rescue America from obesity-induced national decline are damaging the bodily and emotional health of young people and disrupting families and intimate relationships. Fatness today is not primarily about health, Greenhalgh asserts; more fundamentally, it is about morality and political inclusion/exclusion or citizenship. To unpack the complexity of fat politics today, Greenhalgh introduces a cluster of terms-biocitizen, biomyth, biopedagogy, bioabuse, biocop, and fat personhood-and shows how they work together to produce such deep investments in the attainment of the thin, fit body. These concepts, which constitute a theory of the workings of our biocitizenship culture, offer powerful tools for understanding how obesity has come to remake who we are as a nation, and how we might work to reverse course for the next generation.