Facing the Future Enemy: US Counterinsurgency Doctrine and the Pre-insurgent

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 216-240

  Anderson, Ben ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biopolitics; network; security; warfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960992230     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276411423039     Document Type: Article

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