Detention and confinement--of both combatants and large groups of
civilians--have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course
of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and
practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps,
internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions
"protect" populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these
arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of
concentration camps, strategic hamlets, "security walls," and
offshore prisons has come to be.
"Time in the Shadows" investigates the two major liberal
counterinsurgencies of our day: Israeli occupation of Palestine and
the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the book investigates Abu
Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and
Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial
counterinsurgencies from the Boer War and the U.S. Indian wars, to
Vietnam, the British small wars in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Cyprus,
and the French pacification of Indochina and Algeria.
Khalili deftly demonstrates that whatever the form of
incarceration--visible or invisible, offshore or inland, containing
combatants or civilians--liberal states have consistently acted
illiberally in their counterinsurgency confinements. As our tactics
of war have shifted beyond slaughter to elaborate systems of
detention, liberal states have warmed to the pursuit of asymmetric
wars. Ultimately, Khalili confirms that as tactics of
counterinsurgency have been rendered more "humane," they have also
increasingly encouraged policymakers to willingly choose to wage
wars.
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