Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare
This book documents the political ecosystem that legitimized violent military action against military-age males in US military operations after September 11, 2001. It first introduces the military-age male as a category used to identify insurgent combatan
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Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare
Sarah Shoker
Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare
Sarah Shoker Toronto, ON, Canada
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It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine—a gun—which could, by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would—to a large extent—supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease would be greatly diminished. —Richard Jordan Gatling, 1818–1903
This book is dedicated to the civilian dead.
Acknowledgments
Academics are supported by a large network of people who are often invisible to readers but are nevertheless an indispensable part of the research journey. I did not expect a project that began as a Ph.D. dissertation would eventually materialize into a book, but my committee members at McMaster University in the Department of Political Science were confident that this research project’s impact lay beyond the digital walls of the university library’s dissertation repository. Your kind encouragement lay the foundation for pursuing this book project. Specifically, I want to thank my supervisor, Dr. Marshall Beier and my committee members, Dr. Lana Wylie and Dr. Peter Nyers. Your support and knowledge made it clear that academia had room for one more. Marshall, I feel extremely lucky that you were my supervisor and that I had the opportunity to gro
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