TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hasian,Marouf,Jr
AU  - Lawson,Sean
AU  - McFarlane,Megan D.
AU  - Hasian,Marouf
TI  - The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State
T2  - Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric Series
SN  - 9781498505093
AV  - UA23 .H38 2015 
U1  - 355/.033073 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - National security - Social aspects - United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Chapter One: The Rhetorical Origins of America's National Security State -- Chapter Two: Military "Science"and the Legitimation ofPreventive War, Mass Surveillance, and Kill/Capture Counterterrorism -- Chapter Three: The Department of Defense, the CIA, and the Legitimation of America's "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" -- Chapter Four: The Rise of America's Special Forces and the Rhetorical Force Behind the Navy SEAL's Raid on Bin Laden's Abbottabad -- Chapter Five: Cyber War, Threat Inflation, and the Securitization of Everyday Life -- Chapter Six: The "Stress" of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Crews and the Biopolitical Normalization of America's "Precise" Drone Attacks Overseas -- Chapter Seven: Edward Snowden, Agent Provocateur, and Overreactions of the NSA -- Chapter Eight: Anticipating the Future of America's National Security State -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State uses a broad range of materials, including technical, journalistic, entertainment, academic, and legal sources to explore the role of rhetoric in the expansion and maintenance of America's national security state. It helps audiences understand the complex discourses produced by and constitutive of the national security state. Its interdisciplinary approach will resonate with scholars working in a number of different fields, including rhetoric, critical security studies, and science and technology studies
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