Slouching towards dystopia: The new military futurism

Race and Class

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 13-32

  Carr, Matt ^a  

^a Matt Carr is a writer and journalist living in Derbyshire ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Futurology; Military industrial complex; Strategic studies; Thinktanks; US hegemony

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549183453     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: 17413125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306396809354164     Document Type: Article

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13. Ibid., p. xii.
14. Ibid., p. xii.
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18. Ibid., pp. 8-11.
19. Ibid., p. 30.
20. Ibid., p. 16.
21. Ibid., p. 41.
22. Ibid., p. 86-7.
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24. Ibid., p. 97.
25. Ibid., p. 97.
26. Ibid., p. 58.
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28. Ibid., pp. 2, 18.
29. Ibid., pp. 17, 22.
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33. Ibid., p. 3.
34. Ibid., p. 83.
35. Ibid. p, 80.
36. Ibid, p. 85.
37. Ibid., pp. 38, 49.
38. Ibid., p. 81.
39. Ibid., pp. 64, 81.
40. Ibid., pp. 30-1.
41. Ibid., p. 53.
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44. Ibid., pp. 98, 100.
45. Ibid., pp. 100, 105.
46. Ibid., pp. 97-98.
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49. Ibid., p. 47.
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71. Ibid., p. 32.
72. Ibid., pp. 32-3.
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76. Ibid., p. 6.