Bøger af M C Armstrong

"The first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror. Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terrror explores America's post-9/11 soldier-writers, a community that challenges pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance, democracy, geography, solidarity, and national identity. Chapters are organized around a triad of core concepts--parrhesia, cosmopolitanism, and dissensus--and discuss authors including Elliot Ackerman, Kristin Beck, Joseph Hickman, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Edward Snowden, arguing that their work forms a loci of a "dissenting" overhaul of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States' Global War on Terror"--

A journalist embedded with Navy SEALs in Iraq recounts his time on the battlefield and the journey there and back.