Indian Wars Everywhere - Stefan Aune

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Résumé :
This book is an excellent study of the making of counterinsurgency warfare in the nation's early and continued efforts to fight 'Indians.' Part military history, part cultural history, more than any other book, Indian Wars Everywhere links 'Indian' and 'fighting' as an American way of life.--Alex Lubin, author of Never-Ending War on Terror

Indian Wars Everywhere combines incisive cultural analysis with close critical attention to military doctrine and tactics to offer a compelling account of how the legacies of the Indian Wars continue to resonate in US military culture. Stefan Aune has given us a brilliant account of the stories Americans have told themselves about war and how those stories have shaped the violent prosecution of military campaigns from the Philippines to Vietnam to Afghanistan.--David Fitzgerald, author of Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq

This is a stunning work of interdisciplinary cultural history. Rendered in wonderfully lucid and compelling prose, and through a sophisticated analysis of 'Indian/fighting' as a shadow doctrine, Indian Wars Everywhere makes a significant and much-needed contribution to our understandings of the tangled and heretofore under-theorized intersections among the violence of US settler colonialism, imperialism, and militarism, on the one hand, and among culture, discourse, and military perceptions and practices, on the other.--Jodi Kim, author of Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries

Aune's analysis is highly sophisticated and well supported through extensive research. The topic is vitally important as Americans are increasingly aware of the need to reckon with the deep roots of injustice and violence, particularly against communities of color, including Indigenous peoples and nations, as well as America's seemingly unending wars around the world.--Jeffrey Ostler, author of Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

​The United States' brutal invasions of Indigenous homelands--a.k.a. the Indian Wars--remain an unacknowledged yet foundational aspect of American history. In his important and necessary book, Aune traces the long shadows that these conflicts continue to cast over American life as well as over US military adventures in the Philippines, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.--Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

Why does the American military name helicopters and missiles after American Indians, designate every war zone 'Indian Country, ' and repeatedly take Geronimo's name in vain? In this stunning book, Stefan Aune explores the relations of violence and desire that have shaped counterinsurgency strategy. Making colonial histories speak directly to the contemporary War on Terror, Indian Wars Everywhere is a powerful work of cultural history, brilliantly written and utterly convincing.--Phil Deloria, author of Indians in Unexpected Places

Biographie:
Stefan Aune is Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Williams College.