Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror

<b><i>Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror</i> is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.</b><br/><br/>Spencer Ackerman's <i>Reign of Terror</i>stated that The most impactful activism against the War on Terror came from within the Security State itself . . . low ranking soldiers and intelligence contractors whose exposure to the war prompted them to expose it to the world. <i>Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror</i> examines this subculture of veterans whose stories have dramatically shifted the conversation about literature and activism. Author M. C. Armstrong introduces and explores America's post-9/11 soldier-writers a community that challenges pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance democracy geography solidarity and national identity. <br/><br/>Chapters are organized around a triad of core concepts-parrhesia cosmopolitanism and dissensus-and discuss authors including Elliot Ackerman Kristin Beck Joseph Hickman Phil Klay Kevin Powers and Edward Snowden. Armstrong argues that this scene represents a literary movement and perhaps the most significant literary community since the Beat Generation and <i>Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror</i> reads the work of these writers as the loci of a dissenting overhaul of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States' Global War on Terror.<br/><b></b>