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Militainment and the National Security State
The US national security state is a war machine positioned within a geopolitical landscape. It must have a localizable enemy for its powers to appear legitimate; its biggest threat is that the enemy disappears.
- Susan Buck-Morss, 2003, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left.
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