White Flags on the Road to Basra: Surrendering Soldiers in the Persian Gulf War

Palmer‐Fernández, Gabriel

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“…However, Saddam's forces were so debilitated that the ground war to liberate Kuwait was over in just 100 h. As the Iraqi army retreated, coalition forces murdered them in one of the most disgraceful acts of cowardice in the history of military conflict. Saudi mortuary units reported burying over 5000 Iraqi soldiers from the incident (Palmer‐Fernández, ). Yet the mainstream media portrayed the Iraqis as barbaric and the coalition forces as honourable (Kellner, ).…”

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The Perils of Deduction: Limitations of Theoretical Models in Terrorism Studies

Maszka

2018

Syst. Res

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This article explores the limitations of both systemic and lower‐level theories, as well as the limitations associated with the use of theoretical models in the field of Terrorism Studies. They are useful to a degree, as they allow analysts to parse out various facets of a phenomenon and examine them independently. However, this approach involves a trade‐off, offering a measure of parsimony and greater generalizability at the expense of accuracy. For those who desire more accuracy, their models must be more complex and, therefore, generate less generalizable results. What is more, the deductive process becomes increasingly more difficult as theoretical models increase in complexity. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: The Highway To Deathmentioning

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The Perils of Deduction: Limitations of Theoretical Models in Terrorism Studies

Maszka

2018

Syst. Res

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Capturing humanitarian war: the collusion of violence and care in US-managed military detention

Nisa

2015

Environ Plan A

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In this paper I explore the complex economies of violence that circulate through the US military's enactments of battlefield capture and military detainment. I highlight the ways in which these practices relate to the humanitarian objective of carrying out warfare both for and with humanity. I first outline the emergence of an explicitly protective custody within the landscape of war, describing the broad historical contours of war prisoner treatment. I then detail the ways in which humanitarian law's call to care for detained enemy bodies has itself become linked with highly specific forms of political and bodily violence. Next, I argue that this copractice of care and violence in the camps is underpinned by a relational understanding of humanitarianism. Finally, I turn my attention to the ways in which the battlefield encounter has become an increasingly technical enterprise, one in which questions surrounding the ethical treatment of prisoners are subsumed into an evolving assemblage of spaces, means of data collection, and discursive performances that reframe the limits of military violence and generate new vulnerabilities.

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White Flags on the Road to Basra: Surrendering Soldiers in the Persian Gulf War

Cited by 2 publications

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The Perils of Deduction: Limitations of Theoretical Models in Terrorism Studies

The Perils of Deduction: Limitations of Theoretical Models in Terrorism Studies

Capturing humanitarian war: the collusion of violence and care in US-managed military detention

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