Prisoners of war have featured in virtually every conflict that the
US has engaged in since its revolutionary beginnings. Today
visitors to Washington will frequently see a black POW flag flying
high on government buildings or war memorials in silent memory.
This act of fealty towards prisoners reflects a history where they
have frequently been a rallying point, source of outrage and
problem for both military and political leaders. This is as true
for the 2003 Iraq War as it was the American Revolution. Yet, the
story of prisoners in American wars (both enemies taken and
soldiers captured) reveals much about the nation itself; how it
fights conflicts and its attitudes towards laws of war. A nation
born out of an exceptional ideology, the United States has
frequently found itself faced with the contradictory imperatives to
be both exemplary and secure: while American diplomats might be
negotiating a treaty at The Hague, American soldiers could be
fighting a bloody insurrection where it seemed that few if any
rules applied. By taking a historical approach, this book
demonstrates that the challenges America faced regarding
international law and the war on terror were not entirely unique or
unprecedented. Rather, to be properly understood, such dilemmas
must be contextualized within the long history of those prisoners
captured in American wars.
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