SOCIOL 170B Study Guide - Final Guide: Collective Punishment, Counter-Insurgency, Julian Assange
18 May 2017
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Highlighted questions/parts of questions = things i don"t have handouts for/don"t know the answer to, please fill in if you can :-) Essay questions: part 2 of war without end (schwartz): Explain why schwartz argues that counterinsurgency policy is de facto collective punishment of civilians and that modern warfare as practiced in iraq constitutes state terrorism. Collective punishment refers to when noncombatants/civilians are subjected to violence. This is also a form of state terrorism. The us"s counterinsurgency policy justified the killing of innocent civilians to minimize threats against the military, and further the us"s occupation goals. The specific tactics and strategies the military used to fight insurgents inflicted indiscriminate violence on innocent iraqi civilians. By examining the methods used by the military to fight the insurgency, one can see clear evidence that noncombatants were regularly subjected to violence and intimidation. Violent home invasions, beatings, arrests, and killings when searching for insurgents. Frequent shootings of suspicious citizens at military checkpoints.
