Talking conflict : the loaded language of genocide, political violence, terrorism, and warfare / Anna M. Wittmann.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-372) and index.

List of alphabetical entries -- Introduction : the rhetoric of conflict -- Entries : A-Z.

Absorption -- Absurdistan -- Abuse -- Administrative detention -- Allah's Waiting Room (Alfa Whisky Romeo) -- Alphabet soup -- Ambient non-combative personnel -- Anschluss : union of Austria and Germany, 1938 -- Anti-fascist Protection Rampart -- A-OK -- Apartheid -- Appeasement -- Assertive disarmament -- Asymmetric warfare -- Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF) -- Automate Repatriation Reporting System (ARRS) -- Auxiliary facilities (Sonderhilfsmittel) during the Holocaust -- Axis of Evil -- Balkanization -- Bamboo Curtain -- Banana Wars (aka American-Caribbean Wars, 1898-1934) -- Bathing/shower facilities (Badeanstalten) -- Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) -- Bird -- Black sites -- Blighty/Million-dollar wound -- Blitzkrieg (lightning war) -- Blooper (M-79 grenade launcher) -- Boat people -- Bombs, missiles, and rockets : commonly confused terms -- Boots on the ground -- Bouncing Betty -- Brinkmanship -- Bugsplat -- Bush Doctrine -- Cakewalk -- Canada -- Capping, capped -- Catastrophic success -- Catch-22 -- Chair force -- Checkpoint Charlie -- Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) -- Clandestine operations -- Clerical fascism -- Coalition for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) -- Coalition of the willing -- Cold War -- Collateral damage -- Collectivization -- Combat Outpost (COP) -- Combat Stress Reaction (CSR) -- Comics -- Communist revolutionary warfare -- Compound warfare -- Concentration camps -- Constructive engagement -- Containerized Housing Unit (CHU) -- Containment -- Conventional warfare -- Cordon sanitaire -- Counterattack on Poland : Operation Himmler -- Counterinsurgency (COIN) -- Covert operations -- Culminating point -- Cultural revolution -- Cyber warfare --

Dead-checking -- Dead-enders -- Decapitation strike -- Deconfliction -- Defection -- Defensive Fighting Positions (DFP) and revetments -- Demilitarization -- Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)-- Democracy -- Deployment Forces (Einsatzgruppen) -- Desertion -- Détente -- Deterrence -- Dirty war -- Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEF) & Surrendered Enemy Forces (SEF) -- Disgronificator -- Displace Person (DP) -- Dog tags -- Dogfight -- Domino Theory -- Don't ask, don't tell (DADT) -- Draft dodgers -- Dronespeak -- Dud -- Dustoff -- Effective delivery of ordnance -- Embedded journalists -- Embrace the suck -- Enemy aliens -- Enemy belligerent (privileged/unprivileged) -- Enemy combatant (unlawful/lawful) -- Enhanced interrogation -- Eradication, extermination (Ausrotten, Ausmerzen) -- Escalating sectarian violence -- Ethnic cleansing -- Euthanasia (T4 Program) -- Evil Empire -- Exploitation/exploitation force -- Extraordinary rendition -- Extreme prejudice -- Failsafe -- Fallout shelter -- FIDO -- Fifth Column -- Final solution of the Jewish question (Endlösung der Judenfrage) -- Flexible response -- Fog of war -- Forward Operating Base (FOB) -- Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS) -- Fourteen points -- Fragging -- Free fire zone -- Freedom fries, liberty cabbage, and hot dogs -- Freedom/liberation -- Friendly fire -- Fubar -- Geardo -- Genocide -- GITMO -- Glasnost -- Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) -- Good Neighbor Policy -- Granularity -- Great leap forward -- Green zone/brown zone -- Ground Zero -- Groundhog/Groundhog Day -- Grunt (infantryman) -- Gulags -- Gulf War Syndrome -- Holocaust -- Holodomor -- Home to the Reich (Heim ins Reich) -- Hot contact point -- House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) -- Human Exploitation Team/Human Intelligence Exploitation Team (HET) -- Hunter-killer team -- Hutu ten commandments -- Hybrid warfare --

Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) -- Incestuous amplification -- Inside/outside the wire -- Insurgency -- Intelligence Operations (IO) -- Interdictional nonsuccumbers -- International Civil Aviation Organization alphabet (ICAO) / International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet (IRSA) -- Iron Curtain -- Iron Triangle -- Irredentism -- Irregular warfare (IW) -- Jihad / Jihadism -- Kill box -- Kill list -- Killing fields -- Kinetic military action -- Kitchen debate -- Knowns : known and unknown -- Lebensraum -- Liberation -- Limited duration protective reaction strike -- Limited war -- Liquidation -- Low-intensity conflict (LIC) -- LRRP (Long range reconnaissance patrol) rations -- Madman strategy -- Main Operating Base (MOB) -- "Man-caused disasters" v. terrorism -- Mandate -- MASH (Mobile army surgical hospitals) -- Massive retaliation -- McCarthyism -- Meat eater -- Mercenaries -- MiG Alley -- Mild, non-injurious physical contact -- Military-age male (MAM) -- Military intervention -- MIL-speak -- Mole -- Mother of all battles -- Mouseholing -- Mowing the lawn / grass -- Munich analogy -- Mutually assured destruction (MAD) - Naming the adversary : racist and derogatory slang -- Narcoterrrorism -- Nation-building -- New way forward -- Night and Fog (Nacht und Nebel) Decree -- Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) -- No man's land -- Noncombatant evacuation operations (NEOs) -- Nuclear sharing -- Offset strategy -- Operation Enduring Freedom -- Operation Harvest Festival (Erntefest) -- Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Operation Ranch Hand -- Ordnance -- Orwellian Big Brother -- Outrages -- Over the top -- Overflight -- Overseas contingency operations (OCO) -- Payload -- Peaceful coexistence -- Peacekeeping -- Perestroika -- Personality identification playing cards -- Ping-Pong Diplomacy -- Police action -- Police forces, Thrid Reich (Security police : Sicherheitspolizei, Sipo; Regular police : Ordnungspolizei, Orpo; Criminal police : Kriminalpolizei, Kripo) -- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- Precision bombing -- Preemptive war -- Project for the New American Century (PNAC) -- Proxy war -- Psychological operations (PSYOP) -- Recon -- Red Scare -- Regime change -- Retrograde -- Revanchism -- RUMINT --

Sandbox -- Secret squirrel -- Secret State Police (Geheime Staatspolizei, Gestapo) -- Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) -- Self-licking ice cream cone -- Sensitive site exploitation (SSE) -- Shake 'n' bake -- Shock and awe -- Shot in the neck facilities (Genicksschussanlage) -- Signature strike -- Smart bombs vs. dumb bombs -- Snafu -- Softening / soften up -- Special Operations (SO) -- "Special organization" : (Turkish : Teşkilat-i Mahsusa) -- Special Organizations Executive (SOE) -- Special treatment (Sonderbehandlung) -- Standard operating procedure (SOP) -- Star Wars -- State sponsors of terrorism -- Strategic withdrawal -- Subhuman (Untermensch) -- Surge -- Terrorism -- Transfer collection point (Umschlagplatz) -- Trench foot -- Triage -- Troubles -- Unconventional warfare -- Unrestricted warfare -- Vertical envelopment -- Victory -- Visiting and revisiting -- VUCA -- War to end all war -- Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) -- Wet work -- Winning hearts and minds -- Work sets one free (Arbeit macht frei).