War On Terror Research Articles

Muslim youth collective amnesia of US government-inflicted violence against Muslims in the War on Terror

Evidence suggests that incidents of US government-inflicted violence against Muslims are absent from the post-9/11 generation of Muslims’ collective memory. To examine and confirm this collective amnesia, young Muslim American adults were nationally surveyed and interviewed on their knowledge of the Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib detention centers. In total, 100 survey responses were collected and 5 interviews were conducted to examine the extent and formation of the Muslim American youth’s collective perception of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. While nearly all participants displayed awareness of the 9/11 attacks, a significant number of them were unaware of Guantanamo Bay, and most of them were unaware of Abu Ghraib. This study reveals a potential generational gap in the collective memory of Muslim Americans, the individual-level perception of post-9/11 violence against Muslims amongst young Muslim Americans, and new topics for future directions as outlined in the conclusion. It also argues that the absence of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib from young Muslims’ collective memory of the War on Terror (WOT) creates an image of Muslims being the perpetrators of violence and never victims, making it impossible for young Muslims to break out of the dominant frame of memory of 9/11 and its aftermath.

National Guard Command Authority and the Black Lives Matter Protests of 2020: Domestic Security Debates for a New Generation of Military Veterans

This study explores connections between the military experiences of a new generation of War on Terror (WoT) veterans elected to the U.S. Congress and controversial policy decisions on domestic security during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. WoT veterans became the largest cohort of lawmakers with common military experiences on Capitol Hill in 2020, and this article examines their engagement through two original case studies of legislative debates over command and control of the National Guard mobilization during BLM protests. Confrontations between federal law enforcement officers and BLM protestors led some WoT veterans to propose legislation to restrict executive authority over National Guard deployments, including reforms of Titles 10 and 32 of the U.S. Code and the Insurrection Act, but other WoT veterans challenged these positions. This exploratory study of events and circumstances links the timely topic of domestic security to traditional debates in the civil–military relations literature on whether veterans are more or less likely to support the use of military force and try to expand congressional oversight of presidential powers. By bridging the gap between research areas and crossing generations, this article offers lessons for past, present, and potentially future debates about the use of troops for domestic security operations.

Whole-of-society approach or manufacturing intelligence? Making sense of state-CSO relation in preventing and countering violent extremism in Nigeria

ABSTRACT The boundaries of partnership between states and civil society organisations (CSOs), as well as who is counted and who gets to set them, have been the subject of ongoing debate. This discussion has gained particular significance in light of the growing securitisation and tactical engagement of CSOs in conflict, violence, and security. The discussion has led to the development of a theoretical framework known as “strategic exclusion, co-option, and containment” (SECC). Nevertheless, it is worth noting that, the importance of normative inquiries notwithstanding, there exists a dearth of contextual and empirical understanding regarding the dynamics of state-CSO interactions. To address this gap, this study examines the interactions between states and Muslim community-based CSOs in the implementation of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). The research draws from an ethnographic study involving various actors, including policymakers, security agents, non-state P/CVE practitioners, civil society group members, P/CVE donor-agency programme managers, and P/CVE coalition networks and steering committee members. The study argues that in the context of P/CVE, where a “whole-of-society” approach is promoted, the state utilises Muslim community-based CSOs primarily as intelligence producers to advance its interests, thereby undermining their agency in P/CVE practices. Despite its framing as a human security perspective on violent extremism, the whole-of-society approach in P/CVE remains deeply rooted in state-security logic and the continuation of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) practices. This ultimately constricts the spaces of engagement between the state and civil society.

Therapy During Wartime: A Case Study

ABSTRACT The following case vignette exemplifies how the terror of war can divide even the closest of communities, compatriots, colleagues, friends, families, and uproots our very notion of who we are and who we will become. A shared powerlessness is the very place where this therapist and patient meet—a place of surrendering to the overwhelming losses that are already here and that trumpet losses soon to come. The condition for healing for both therapist and patient is found in each partner’s capacity to be with another, and all that spontaneously moves through them. Staying close to her moving-sensing experiences, the therapist offers herself as possible steady ground for the patient, who eventually reciprocates in kind. The therapist learns as much about herself in the exchange as the patient and most probably more. How could it be otherwise?

Zionism and the war(s) on terror: extinction phobias, anti-Muslim racism, and critical scholarship

ABSTRACT This article traces the genealogy of 21 st century “terrorism” discourse to mid-to-late 20th century neoconservative thought and Israeli propaganda, arguing that Zionism is the disavowed rhetorical, political, and affective centre of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The paper further analyzes Zionism and the “terrorism” discourse to which it gives rise as extinction phobias, or moralised narratives of existential threat that explain the voluminous, horrific violence unleashed by the GWOT, the persistence of the GWOT’s signature racisms (anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian racism), and the world-destroying violence unleashed by Israel on the Gaza Strip most spectacularly in 2023–24. The article concludes by explaining the implications of this genealogy for efforts to classify white supremacist violence as terrorism and scholarly accounts of terrorism in the fields of TS and CTS.

Prima Donnas in Kevlar zones. Challenges to the Unconventional Warfare efforts of the U.S. Special Forces during Operation Enduring Freedom

ABSTRACT When Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) commenced in October 2001, the U.S. Special Forces (SF) were the first U.S. military unit on the ground in Afghanistan, utilising their Unconventional Warfare (UW) capabilities. Despite their significant role at the initial stage of the military campaign, SF began to encounter numerous challenges from as early as 2002 and throughout OEF. Based on an analysis of forty-five master’s theses authored by SF officers, this paper discusses the structural-organisational and cultural-conceptual challenges. These obstacles led to the marginalisation of SF’s UW efforts. Scholarship on special operations forces (SOF) often regards the period of the so-called global war on terrorism (GWOT) as U.S. SOF’s golden age focusing predominantly on the activities of SOF units linked to the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command rather than on SF. By examining the challenges faced by SF, this article aims to contribute to a more nuanced discussion of SOF efforts during GWOT.

К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ ОСНОВАХ БОРЬБЫ С МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫМ ТЕРРОРИЗМОМ НА ТЕРРИТОРИИ ЕВРАЗИИ

An issue of terrorism is one of the most important in the modern world. Terrorism poses a serious threat to the security and stability not only of individual countries but also of the entire international community. In the Eurasian space we face the manifestation of various forms of terrorism, which have not only national and regional, but also global dimension, capable of affecting negatively security throughout the world. Analyzing the development of terrorism in the Eurasian region, the author identifies the main reasons for its emergence and spread. In the author’s opinion, young post-Soviet states in Eurasia are in a zone of special danger, which for various reasons are often unable to cope with the terrorist threat on their own. A productive solution in that case is the creation of integration associations of different profiles, which contribute to the unification of financial and military potential the above states in the fight against terrorism. The author notes that such organizations – the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – should unite in the future, creating a new pan-regional organization that would specialize in combating both “classic” forms of terrorism and its more formidable manifestations, such as terrorist wars.

Systematization of tourist market development factors

The article analyzes the essence of the modern tourist market, reveals the dynamics of international tourist arrivals over the past decades, and establishes the leading countries and directions of the development of the tourist market in the world. The classification of influencing factors on the development of the tourist market is studied in detail and presented. Considerable recreational potential of Ukraine, favorable climatic conditions of the country, network of transport connections, cultural and religious heritage, developed hospitality industry, highly qualified staff with world-famous medical and ski resorts, and UNESCO World Heritage sites. It has been proven that during the time of independence, more than 20 million tourists visited the country every year, income from tourism was growing, and the number of tourists was even before the start of the global upheavals of recent years (COVID-19 and the full-scale terrorist war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine). It was found that today, tourism is the most profitable sphere of the world economy. This is evidenced by the development of the tourism sector in the country, which is determined by the tourist infrastructure and includes, first, tourism organizers (tour operators and travel agencies), as well as accelerated processes of informatization of society and the development of information and communication technologies, which in turn quite actively contribute to the development of international tourism. Segmentation of the tourist market was carried out, and recommendations for the future development of the tourist industry were offered. The relationship between exchange rates and consumer behavior on the market has been studied. It has been confirmed that the possibility of tourism demand is also closely related to legal norms concerning various spheres of life, not necessarily directly related to tourism. Among the legal, administrative, and organizational tools, it should be mentioned, first, decisions in the field of free time (paid vacations, weekly working hours, vacations for rehabilitation, the actual amount of free time). Developed a system of sports entertainment and active activity of friendly local organizations. Introduction. The modern tourism industry is one of the fastest-growing branches of the world economy and is considered both an independent type of economic activity and an interdisciplinary complex. In many countries and regions, tourism is the main source of income. Tourism is a significant source of job creation. The article aims to study the article is to research the disclosure of influencing factors on the development of the tourist market and to determine the trends of tourist flows in the conditions of the pandemic. The results. In general, there is an uneven development of international tourism in the countries of the world. The main reasons for this are the underdeveloped infrastructure of the tourism sphere and related service spheres, customs control difficulties and an unfavorable visa regime for foreign tourists, low investment activity in the tourism sphere, problems of the shadow economy, low professionalism of workers in the sphere of tourist services, insufficient level of quality of tourist services, economic and political destabilization, imperfect legal security of the industry. Under the conditions of solving these problems, the interest of international tourists will increase precisely in these countries, given the affordability of tourist services in them. World trends in international tourism make it possible to classify the tourism business as one of the most promising sectors of the economy. However, the world's tourism field develops unevenly and has regional characteristics. A developed tourist infrastructure contributes to the improvement of the country's attractiveness and competitiveness in the world, accelerates the processes of its integration into the world economy, and ensures the transition from an agrarian and industrial economy to the development of an economy based on the service sector. For the development of international tourism in a certain country, first, such conditions as a favorable climate, nature, historical and cultural heritage, developed hotel infrastructure and infrastructure of related industries, a high level of security, including from international terrorism, are needed; affordability of tourist services, national folklore, and cultural heritage, developed system of sports entertainment and active activity of friendly local organizations. But for the natural resource and cultural potential to be used to the maximum, significant investments in this area, highly professional personnel, proper state regulation, and stabilization of the macroeconomic situation are needed. The market model of the economy necessitates the improvement of the organizational and economic mechanism for the development of international tourism, which is associated with the intensification of this industry, increased competition on the world market, the development of new organizational forms of international tourism, increased capital mobility, and the expansion of market boundaries and business contacts. Keywords: tourism market, development, factors, factors, categorization, systematization, segmentation, market subjects, goods, services, demand, supply, income, costs, growth, pandemic.

MODERN MANAGEMENT AS A CONTINUATION MAKARENKIV TRADITIONS IN CONDITIONS OF SEVERE UNCERTAINTY

The article examines the role of the manager of an educational extracurricular institution in the development and adoption of management decisions in modern Ukrainian realities, offers project author's practical recommendations in this regard, taking into account the historically similar experience of the Makarenko traditions, and this study recommends it as extremely relevant.
 The scientific novelty of the work consists in the further development of the concept of "extreme uncertainty (war) - to a more relevant concept and, accordingly, the proposal of a new term in management, namely: "hard uncertainty" - for working conditions during a large-scale terrorist war against the background of the covid-19 pandemic, that are currently taking place simultaneously on the territory of Ukraine. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibilities of using conclusions and recommendations in extracurricular educational institutions of Ukraine.

Romanticization and Demonization: Galician Landscapes in Russian Combatants’ Narratives During the Great War

In terms of environmental history, the First World War represents one of the most significant information gaps of the Anthropocene, where the type of warfare and the fall of empires intensified the destructiveness of the interaction between people and nature, changing the geological and cultural characteristics of Central and Eastern European landscapes. The collision of mass armies with foreign landscapes and militarized natural environments left an indelible stamp on personal accounts of the Great War. The imagery of nature, both as an uncontrollable force and as an object of impact, abounds in a broad diversity of textual and visual sources, which range from official documentation to private correspondence and from propaganda newsreels to personal photographs. It appears that pictures of landscapes destroyed or transformed by war (as well as the related epidemiological and climatic threats) contributed to shaping combatants’ existential experience to the same degree as short military operations. Unlike the universalized experience of the Western Front countries in the available literature on the environmental and spatial history of the First World War, the multiple ways in which mobile belligerent landscapes of the Eastern Front were experienced and perceived are yet to be addressed documentarily as well as methodologically. The article aims to reconstruct the horizons of expectation and environment construction strategies in combatants’ individual narratives and to identify the meaning of belligerent landscapes in the formation of specific behavioral strategies and practices on the Eastern Front of the world’s first industrial war. The analysis of ego-documents (letters, diaries, and memoirs) left by participants of WWI has identified a diversity of models for anthropomorphizing environmental objects and phenomena on the Eastern Front, which range from romanticization to demonization. The author aims to establish the way the perception of belligerent landscapes depends on the cultural baggage, prior experience of warfare, military branch, and the density of contacts with civilians populating the militarized spaces. One of the key messages of this study is the suggestion that the militarised environment’s signification through religious, literary, epidemiological anti-Semitic and other lenses contributed to the normalization of combatants’ mortal terror of war, their negative military experience, mourning, and nostalgia for the lost life-worlds.

THE ROLE OF SMALL STATES IN LARGE STATES’ FOREIGN POLICY: ANALYSIS OF PAKISTAN - U. S. RELATIONS

The paper analyses the importance of state states in the affairs of bigger states in the context of foreign policy persuasion. In this context the paper examines the relations between Pakistan which is seen as small state in its relations with the United Sates of America, which is a big state. It reviewed a number of literatures on small states in large states’ foreign policy persuasion and found that some small states are very crucial and are key influencers of big states foreign policy directions. The paper found Pakistan a key ally of USA in military and security sense and in the war of terror. Despite some issues of distrust between Pakistan and USA including the killing of some terrorists in Pakistan, the USA seems unlikely to abandon the small state of Pakistan due to its strategic location (geopolitics). Thus, some small states matter so much in foreign policy persuasion.

Dziennik czasów zarazy

The author publishes an excerpt from her personal diary. She has been writing it since the outbreak of the covid epidemic. This fragment begins on 24 February – the day of Russian aggression against Ukraine. She believes that war is also a cruel kind of pestilence. The author contrasts the atmosphere of apparent peace and spring mood on the streets of Warsaw with the terror of war in Ukraine. She quotes e-mails from his friends in Kiev and poems by Oleksandr Irvanets and Timothy Snyder. She reports on a hybrid conference from the Jagiellonian University under the slogan “University and War”. Vice-rectors of Ukrainian universities spoke about the situation and activities of universities in Ukraine. In the final part of the diary, the author included a description of the meeting with her friend in Warsaw, professor Natalya Starchenko.

The Relationship Between Military Service and Legislative Behavior for U.S. Representatives in Recent Congresses

Military veterans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives during the 113th–115th Congresses (2013–2019) exhibited distinct legislative behavior on selected defense-related topics compared with their nonveteran colleagues. Examining 208 House roll call votes on issues salient to military veterans in which more than 90,000 individual Representative votes were cast as well as by categorizing more than 19,000 bills sponsored, this study finds that there was a small but distinct veteran voting trend that opposed Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) troop reductions. In addition, younger members exhibited a trend that suggests future Congresses may be more willing to approve use of military force than in previous decades. Finally, this study empirically demonstrates the tension in conservative fiscal policy preferences between increasing defense spending versus restraining total government expenditure.

Stateless and Vulnerable: Race, Policing, and Citizenship in Pakistan

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewEarly View DIRECTIONS PIECE Stateless and Vulnerable: Race, Policing, and Citizenship in Pakistan Zoha Waseem, Corresponding Author Zoha Waseem [email protected] University of Warwick Correspondence Zoha Waseem Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Zoha Waseem, Corresponding Author Zoha Waseem [email protected] University of Warwick Correspondence Zoha Waseem Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 01 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12514Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. 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“Phantom operators”: special operations forces and asymmetric warfare in Northern Nigeria.

ABSTRACT Across the world, Special Operations Forces (SOFs) play a leading role in asymmetric warfare. The unique trainings, skills, weapons, and equipment of these elite Tier 1 operators, differentiates them from conventional forces, making them the preferred choice in complex environments. SOFs are ideally deployed for short operations, which include direct action missions, hostage rescue, hunting high-value targets (HVTs), mobility operations, intelligence operations, airborne operations, counterterrorism (CT), counterinsurgency (COIN) operations, and covert operations among others. While the literature has mostly focused on the utility of major powers’ SOFs in the Global War on Terror (GWOT), with little attention on Africa’s SOF’s, this paper examines the origins, evolution, composition, and deployments of Nigeria’s SOFs specifically in the Northeast, Northcentral, and Northwest theatres of operation, against the Boko Haram insurgency and armed banditry, respectively. Drawing on primary data from interviews with key informants and other secondary data sources, the paper interrogates the successes, challenges, and prospects of Nigeria’s SOFs. The strategic utility and overreliance on Nigeria’s SOFs by political leaders and the Military’s High Command puts a strain on their strategic value which potentially undermines their strategic efficacy as a force-multiplier in the long run, against unconventional threats.

A historical comparison of U.S. Army & U.S. civilian suicide rates, 1900–2020

Studies examining the perceived association of war time and increasing suicide rates in the U.S. military and U.S. civilian populations have proliferated since the beginning of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). However, additional historical analysis is needed to better place the recent surge in active-duty U.S. Army and U.S. civilian suicide rates into context and better inform researchers, healthcare providers, and policy makers. To do so, a cross sectional study that extracted empirical data from U.S. government websites, publications, and journal articles published from 1900 to 2022 was conducted to identify longitudinal trends. From 1900 to 2020, active-duty U.S. Army soldier and U.S. civilian suicide rates appear to fluctuate similarly, but with soldier rates often displaying more dramatic changes. Since 1900, active-duty U.S. Army soldier and similarly aged U.S. civilian male suicide rates have gradually converged, with the differences in rates narrowing over time. War does not historically appear to increase suicide rates in active-duty U.S. Army soldiers or U.S. civilians. More recently, given the apparent convergence of U.S. Army and similarly aged U.S. civilian male annual suicide rates, larger more universal factors than combat may be similarly affecting both populations.

Towards a Decolonial Approach to New Zealand’s Counter Terrorism: Afrocentric Perspectives

New Zealand’s counterterrorism approach, like that of many other postcolonial states, stems from models which continue to operationalise and legitimise colonial continuities. These models are predominantly underpinned by the events of 9/11. However, the devastating attacks in Christchurch in 2019 raised concerns about the way domestic terrorism has been conceived of by the security and intelligence communities in New Zealand. Debates have emerged on the efficacy of the Western-centric Global War on Terror (GWOT) narrative on terrorism and how it fits within the realities of New Zealand’s counter-terrorism context, given the country’s national peculiarities and colonial history. Consequently, this article explores the GWOT ideology and attempts to expose terrorism as an a historical colonial concept. The argument is thus made for epistemic reconstitution and pluriversality of knowledges in how terrorism is understood and dealt with in the New Zealand context. In so doing, the article invokes decolonial thinking by drawing parallels between New Zealand’s experience and the African colonial experience, by discussing decolonisation through the lens of Afrocentrism. Animating New Zealand’s counterterrorism experience through the prism of Afrocentrism, therefore, the argument is made that the foundation of knowledge production in counter-terrorism within New Zealand is profoundly colonial.

Tuu Karrai Spi: Deconstructing Aman Committees and Life in South Waziristan

ABSTRACT This study explores the post-9/11 ramifications of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in South Waziristan, Pakistan. It discusses how the post-colonial state has undermined state and tribal political relations which constituted political order first during the British colonial era and later in Pakistan. Furthermore, it explores how the post-colonial state has shared de facto sovereignty in the region with a “good” Taliban in the shape of a peace committee. To understand the Pakistan post-colonial state’s engagement with South Waziristan, it is necessary to make sense of the ongoing GWOT and the resulting necropolitics of life and death in South Waziristan. The paper explores how residents have confronted different scenarios when they encounter the new powerholders. It details the everyday experiences, life stories, and socio-political existence of the people of South Waziristan as an alternative narrative to how mainstream media and academic sources have discussed this area.

Border vigilante/Militia activity, the National Security State, and the Migrant “Threat”

ABSTRACT The relationship between border security and immigration has always been contentious and politically divisive. Using the cases of the War on Drugs (WoD), the War on Terror (WoT) and then the Migrant “Caravan” of 2018, I show that border security and enforcement have followed a historical pattern of racialised and gendered hierarchies using the prominent language frames of crime, war and invasion to negatively construct the migrant as “other” and the national security state as protector. These policies have shaped an environment by which state violence and state-sanctioned violence of non-state actors, such as vigilante/militia groups, become an acceptable response to protect the “Homeland” from vilified “others”. Racialised and gendered hierarchies are deeply entrenched in the US national security state, have (re)produced through time and thus, historically, the system has been designed to promote an environment by which practices of exclusion and expulsion become justified by both state and non-state actors. This calls into question definitions of terrorism, which do not adequately address the violence perpetrated by government forces and/or those non-state actors who are explicitly and implicitly supported by the nation-state.

Media as a catalyst of Ukrainian national identity

The article examines the media aspect of historical and contemporary issues related to the formation, development, and establishment of Ukrainian national identity, as well as its role in Ukraine’s information-psychological security system. It emphasizes that the current 28th genocidal and terrorist war by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, like the previous Russian-Ukrainian wars, is a war of identities and civilizations for Ukrainian national and universal moral-spiritual values. The works of identity researchers S. Vovkanych, O. Hnatiuk, M. Hybernia, S. Yekelchyk, V. Kulik, V. Ferenc, and other authors have been reviewed, emphasizing that national identity has a fluid and dynamic nature. The defining criteria of national identity are continuity over time and differentiation from others. National identity has five dimensions: “psychological, cultural, territorial, historical, and political.” (Montserrat Gibernau). Based on the analysis of identity research and media materials, it is affirmed that Ukrainian national identity (both individual and collective) is rooted in the shared psychological, cultural, linguistic, historical, geographical, social, political, and customary aspects of life. The nourishing source of Ukrainian identity is the authentic linguistic and historical experience. The manipulative political-ideological propaganda of Russia, claiming that Ukrainians and Russians are one nation with a single language, culture, faith, and history, has been exposed. It is argued that the distant ancestors of present-day Ukrainians and Russians evolved as ethnic communities under completely different geographic and natural conditions, leading to different ways of life. The Ruthenians=Rusyns=Ukrainians and Mokshans=Muscovites=Russians lived in different worlds, characterized by distinct languages, customs, and the formation of diverse identities. The ideology of the «Russian world», which includes «the promotion of a pan-Russian identity in Ukraine» (M. Zhulynsky), has been debunked. It is emphasized that not only journalists but also politicians, officials, and deputies should have a deep knowledge of the true history, communicate in the Ukrainian language within Ukraine, and spiritually enrich their intellect in order to strengthen their ancestral national identity. In view of the fact that some Ukrainians are under the influence of Russian imperial identity, the need to change the concept of media activity, which should be based on Ukraine-centric principles, is justified. The principle of nation-centricity unifies other principles of media activity and should serve as the foundation for a model of media influence for the further development, deepening, and affirmation of Ukrainian national identity.