Ethics, norms and the narratives of war : creating and encountering the enemy other / Pamela Creed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creed, Pamela, 1969- author.

Series:

War, Conflict and Ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Soldiers--United States--Attitudes.

Soldiers.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

United States--Armed Forces--Iraq--Attitudes.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change. The invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003, was led by the United States under the now discredited claim that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, critical questions concerning what we may be able to learn from this experience remain largely unexplored. The focus of this book, therefore, is on soldiers as systems of war - and the internal battle many of them wage as

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The making of an American war narrative; 1 From crisis to consensus; 2 Shifting storylines: enter Iraq; 3 The push toward preemptive war: from rhetoric to reality; Part II: Narrating ourselves into war; 4 Receiving the narrative; 5 Myth, memory and humiliation; Part III: Living the narrative; 6 Embracing uncertainty; 7 Between spaces: confusion and courage; 8 Conclusion; List of interviews; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-25206-1

1-280-87432-5

9786613715630

1-136-25207-X

0-203-10502-8

9780203105023

OCLC:

804665864