Warrior Woundings, Warrior Culture: an Ethos for a Post-9/11 American War Culture
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Buchanan, David
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2020-10
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New Cultures of Remote Warfare: Chapter 2/Warrior Woundings, Warrior Culture: an Ethos for a Post-9/11 American War Culture, pp. 53-78
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As the United States nears the completion of a second decade of constant war since 9/11, one of the most important questions that loom over critical assessments of contemporary war literature is whether anything new or different is happening in this body of writing. These wars certainly seem different from our wars of the twentieth century, so it makes sense to hypothesize that the literature might be different as well and, therefore, reflect something back about the culture that has been sending military members off to fight for so long. Dominated by new technologies, extended to new geographies, and featuring...
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University of Minnesota Press