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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782794503321

Autore

Meštrović Stjepan Gabriel

Titolo

Rules of engagement? [[electronic resource] ] : a social anatomy of an American war crime-- Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq / / Stjepan G. Mestrovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2008

ISBN

9786611793906

1-281-79390-6

0-87586-674-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Disciplina

956.7044/3420973

Soggetti

Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq, 2006

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Atrocities

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Social aspects

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Psychological aspects

Prisoners of war - Iraq - Tikrīt Region

War crimes - Iraq - Tikrīt Region

Soldiers - Iraq - Psychology

Trials (Military offenses) - United States

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

Location of Objective Murray; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introducing an Apparently New Form of Combat; Chapter 2. Laying Out the Conceptual Tools for the Social Anatomy that Follows; Chapter 3: The First Version of Events - Mission Accomplished; Chapter 4: The Media's Spin on the Events and Their Echoes in the Past; Chapter 5. The May 29 Version: Playing It By Ear; Chapter 6. The Third Version of Events: Conspiracy, Cunning, and Cold-Blooded Murder; Chapter 7. Explaining the Imperfect Crimes at Operation Iron Triangle

Chapter 8. The Doctrine of Command Responsibility as an Exercise in Fake SincerityIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Blackwater, Abu Ghraib and other scandals in Iraq were presaged by the



murderous Operation Iron Triangle in May 2006 when US soldiers were ordered to kill all Iraqis of military age. The soldiers were imprisoned; the officer was merely reprimanded. Mestrovic details the American leadership's fake commitment to the Geneva Conventions and the rule of law, fake due process for defendants, fake goals of promoting democracy, and compulsion to repeat our errors in Vietnam. The Blackwater scandal involved killing unarmed Iraqis in accordance with ""rules of engagement"" that were apparently similar t