Rules of engagement? : a social anatomy of an American war crime-- Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq / Stjepan G. Mestrovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq, 2006.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Atrocities.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Social aspects.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Psychological aspects.

Prisoners of war--Iraq--Tikrīt Region.

Prisoners of war.

War crimes--Iraq--Tikrīt Region.

War crimes.

Soldiers--Iraq--Psychology.

Soldiers.

Trials (Military offenses)--United States.

Trials (Military offenses).

United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st--Regulations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blackwater, Abu Ghraib and other scandals in Iraq were presaged by the murderous Operation Iron Triangle in May 2006 when US soldiers were ordered to kill all Iraqis of military age. The soldiers were imprisoned; the officer was merely reprimanded. Mestrovic details the American leadership's fake commitment to the Geneva Conventions and the rule of law, fake due process for defendants, fake goals of promoting democracy, and compulsion to repeat our errors in Vietnam. The Blackwater scandal involved killing unarmed Iraqis in accordance with ""rules of engagement"" that were apparently similar t

Contents:

Location of Objective Murray; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introducing an Apparently New Form of Combat; Chapter 2. Laying Out the Conceptual Tools for the Social Anatomy that Follows; Chapter 3: The First Version of Events - Mission Accomplished; Chapter 4: The Media's Spin on the Events and Their Echoes in the Past; Chapter 5. The May 29 Version: Playing It By Ear; Chapter 6. The Third Version of Events: Conspiracy, Cunning, and Cold-Blooded Murder; Chapter 7. Explaining the Imperfect Crimes at Operation Iron Triangle

Chapter 8. The Doctrine of Command Responsibility as an Exercise in Fake SincerityIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786611793906

1-281-79390-6

0-87586-674-3

OCLC:

476192414