The dead of night: Chaos and spectacide of nocturnal combat in the Iraq war

War, Technology, Anthropology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages 34-44

  Robben, Antonius C G M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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