Counterinsurgency Reexamined: Racism,Capitalism, and US Military Doctrine |
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| Authors: | Jordan T Camp Jennifer Greenburg |
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| Institution: | 1. Visiting Scholar, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA;2. Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | The US has been engaged in coercive projects of counterinsurgency since the Indian Wars in the 19th century. Racist constructions of the enemy have been central to this process. Counterinsurgency has called forth new waves of contestation at every juncture, which has in turn shaped the very texture of military doctrine. This article draws on archival research, historical geography, and Marxist theory to trace the dialectics of counterinsurgency and insurgency through a series of turning points in US imperial history from the development of small wars doctrine in the 1930s to renewal of counterinsurgency during hybrid wars in Venezuela and Latin America in the current conjuncture. Through a conjunctural analysis, we argue that racism performs fundamental work in achieving consent to counterinsurgency wars, allowing capitalism to survive challenges to its legitimacy. |
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| Keywords: | race capital counterinsurgency Gramsci policing prisons |
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