Counterinsurgency snake oil was sold to soldiers and civilians alike as a “new” brand of urbane and civilized warfare. The absurdly over-the-top euphemistic buzzwords and mantras applied to such strategies – “stability-” and “information” “operations,” “handshakes&hand grenades,” or “nation builders as well as warriors” – should’ve tipped us off that something severely dark was concealed … Continue reading “‘Made Possible by Viewers Taxpayers Like You’: French African-Adventurism & Wedding-Bombings”
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