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Overview
- Summary
- This book provides background information about how language is used to obfuscate or minimize descriptions of armed conflict or genocide and presents examples of the major rhetorical devices used in this subject matter. It focuses on the "loaded" language of conflict, with many of the entries demonstrating the function of given terms as euphemisms, propaganda, or circumlocutions.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, An imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
- Contents
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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). - Notes
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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).
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- English
- ISBN
- 9781440834240
1440834245 - Physical Description
- xviii, 386 pages ; 26 cm
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