Malignants in the Body Politic : Redefining War through Metaphor

By Douglas R. Stickle

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Title:	Malignants in the Body Politic : Redefining War through Metaphor
Author:	Douglas R. Stickle
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Philosophy, War
Collections:	Authors Community, Psychology
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Publisher:	Air University Press

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Citation APA MLA Chicago R. Stickl, B. D. (n.d.). Malignants in the Body Politic : Redefining War through Metaphor. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush declared the dawn of a new kind of war. He has repeatedly emphasized that means and measures of success in this new war will differ greatly from wars past. However, if this “war on terrorism” is unlike any other war, then what is it like? From the public statements of high-ranking US officials, metaphorical answers emerge: terrorism is a metastasizing cancer, a plague, a threat from which we are not immune. This study explores the analogies of immunity, infection, and cancer. In doing so it addresses the classic strategic question: What is the nature of the enemy and of the fight?

Table of Contents
1 EMERGING METAPHORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 THREATS FROM WITHOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 THREATS FROM WITHIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4 REDEFINING WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33