Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Professor Stephen Graham
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
Western military strategy was long premised on the avoidance of urban combat, with air strikes the preferred method of subduing large conurbations. Cities were seen as targets, not battlefields. But today, the cityscapes of the global South have emerged as paradigmatic conflict zones. Since the end of the Cold War, America’s militarized thrust into the Middle East and Central Eurasia has focused Pentagon planners’ attention on the burgeoning Arab and Third World cities that are now deemed de facto sites of current and future warfare for us forces. While the ‘revolution in military affairs’ emphasized overhead dominance, the losing battle for the streets of Iraq has sharpened the Pentagon’s focus on battles within the micro-geographies of slums, favelas, industrial districts and casbahs, as well as on globe-spanning stealth and surveillance technologies.
Author(s): Graham S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: New Left Review
Year: 2007
Volume: 44
Pages: 121-132
Print publication date: 01/03/2007
ISSN (print): 0028-6060
ISSN (electronic): 1575-9776
Publisher: New Left Review
URL: http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2663
