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TALKING CONFLICT: LOADED LANG GEN POL VLNC TERR WARFARE

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<P>This book of alphabetically listed entries is prefaced by an introductory overview that provides background information about how language is used to obfuscate or minimize descriptions of armed conflict or genocide and presents examples of the major rhetorical devices used in this subject matter. It focuses on the "loaded" language of conflict, with many of the entries demonstrating the function of given terms as euphemisms, propaganda, or circumlocutions.</P>

Talking Conflict: The Loaded Language of Genocide, Political Violence, Terrorism, and Warfare

12th Grade +

College Freshman

College Sophomore

College Junior

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Talking Conflict

Duration

Duration Unit Of Measure

Transaction Type

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Alphabetical Entries.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: The Rhetoric of Conflict.
1: Absorption.
2: Absurdistan.
3: Abuse.
4: Administrative Detention.
5: Allah&#x0027;s Waiting Room (Alfa Whisky Romeo).
6: Alphabet Soup.
7: Ambient Non-Combative Personnel.
8: Anschluss&#x2014;Union of Austria and Germany, 1938.
9: Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart.
10: A-OK.
11: Apartheid.
12: Appeasement.
13: Assertive Disarmament.
14: Asymmetric Warfare.
15: Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF).
16: Automated Repatriation Reporting System (ARRS).
17: Auxiliary Facilities (Sonderhilfsmittel) during the Holocaust.
18: Axis of Evil.
19: Balkanization.
20: Bamboo Curtain.
21: Banana Wars (aka American-Caribbean Wars, 1898-1934).
22: Bathing/Shower Facilities (Badeanstalten).
23: Battle Damage Assessment (BDA).
24: Bird.
25: Black Sites.
26: Blighty/Million-Dollar Wound.
27: Blitzkrieg/Lightning War.
28: Blooper (M-79 Grenade Launcher).
29: Boat People.
30: Bombs, Missiles, and Rockets&#x2014;Commonly Confused Terms.
31: Boots on the Ground.
32: Bouncing Betty.
33: Brinkmanship.
34: Bugsplat.
35: Bush Doctrine.
36: Cakewalk.
37: Canada.
38: Capping, Capped.
39: Catastrophic Success.
40: Catch-22.
41: Chair Force.
42: Checkpoint Charlie.
43: Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG).
44: Clandestine Operations.
45: Clerical Fascism.
46: Coalition for the Defense of the Republic (CDR).
47: Coalition of the Willing.
48: Cold War.
49: Collateral Damage.
50: Collectivization.
51: Combat Outpost (COP).
52: Combat Stress Reaction (CSR).
53: Comics.
54: Communist Revolutionary Warfare.
55: Compound Warfare.
56: Concentration Camps.
57: Constructive Engagement.
58: Containerized Housing Unit (CHU).
59: Containment.
60: Conventional Warfare.
61: Cordon Sanitaire.
62: Counterattack on Poland: Operation Himmler.
63: Counterinsurgency (COIN).
64: Covert Operations.
65: Culminating Point.
66: Cultural Revolution.
67: Cyber Warfare.
68: Dead-Checking.
69: Dead-Enders.
70: Decapitation Strike.
71: Deconfliction.
72: Defection.
73: Defensive Fighting Positions (DFP) and Revetments.
74: Demilitarization.
75: Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
76: Democracy.
77: Deployment Forces (Einsatzgruppen).
78: Desertion.
79: D&#x00E9;tente.
80: Deterrence.
81: Dirty War.
82: Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEF); Surrendered Enemy Forces (SEF).
83: Disgronificator.
84: Displaced Person (DP).
85: Dog Tags.
86: Dogfight.
87: Domino Theory.
88: Don&#x0027;t Ask, Don&#x0027;t Tell (DADT).
89: Draft Dodgers.
90: Dronespeak.
91: Dud.
92: Dustoff.
93: Effective Delivery of Ordnance.
94: Embedded Journalists.
95: Embrace the Suck.
96: Enemy Aliens.
97: Enemy Belligerent (Privileged/Unprivileged).
98: Enemy Combatant (Unlawful/Lawful).
99: Enhanced Interrogation.
100: Eradication, Extermination (Ausrotten, Ausmerzen).
101: Escalating Sectarian Violence.
102: Ethnic Cleansing.
103: Euthanasia (T4 Program).
104: Evil Empire.
105: Exploitation/Exploitation Force.
106: Extraordinary Rendition.
107: Extreme Prejudice.
108: Failsafe.
109: Fallout Shelters.
110: FIDO.
111: Fifth Column.
112: Final Solution of the Jewish Question (Endl&#x00F6;sung der Judenfrage).
113: Flexible Response.
114: Fog of War.
115: Forward Operating Base (FOB).
116: Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS).
117: Fourteen Points.
118: Fragging.
119: Free Fire Zone.
120: Freedom Fries, Liberty Cabbage, and Hot Dogs.
121: Freedom/Liberation.
122: Friendly Fire.
123: Fubar.
124: Geardo.
125: Genocide.
126: GITMO.
127: Glasnost.
128: Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).
129: Good Neighbor Policy.
130: Granularity.
131: Great Leap Forward.
132: Green Zone/Brown Zone.
133: Ground Zero.
134: Groundhog/Groundhog Day.
135: Grunt (Infantryman).
136: Gulags.
137: Gulf War Syndrome.
138: Holocaust.
139: Holodomor.
140: Home to the Reich&#x2014;Heim ins Reich.
141: Hot Contact Point.
142: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
143: Human Exploitation Team/Human Intelligence Exploitation Team (HET).
144: Hunter-Killer Team.
145: Hutu Ten Commandments.
146: Hybrid Warfare.
147: Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
148: Incestuous Amplification.
149: Inside/Outside the Wire.
150: Insurgency.
151: Intelligence Operations (IO).
152: Interdictional Nonsuccumbers.
153: International Civil Aviation Organization Alphabet (ICAO)/International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet (IRSA).
154: Iron Curtain.
155: Iron Triangle.
156: Irredentism.
157: Irregular Warfare (IW).
158: Jihad/Jihadism.
159: Kill Box.
160: Kill List.
161: Killing Fields.
162: Kinetic Military Action.
163: Kitchen Debate.
164: Knowns&#x2014;Known and Unknown.
165: Lebensraum.
166: Liberation.
167: Limited Duration Protective Reaction Strike.
168: Limited War.
169: Liquidation.
170: Low-Intensity Conflict (LIC).
171: LRRP (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol) Rations.
172: Madman Strategy.
173: Main Operating Base (MOB).
174: &#x201C;Man-Caused Disasters&#x201D; vs. Terrorism.
175: Mandate.
176: MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital).
177: Massive Retaliation.
178: McCarthyism.
179: Meat Eater.
180: Mercenaries.
181: MiG Alley.
182: Mild, Non-Injurious Physical Contact.
183: Military-Age Male (MAM).
184: Military Intervention.
185: MIL-Speak.
186: Mole.
187: Mother of All Battles.
188: Mouseholing.
189: Mowing the Lawn/Grass.
190: Munich Analogy.
191: Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
192: Naming the Adversary: Racist and Derogatory Slang.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Alphabetical Entries.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: The Rhetoric of Conflict.
1: Absorption.
2: Absurdistan.
3: Abuse.
4: Administrative Detention.
5: Allah&#x0027;s Waiting Room (Alfa Whisky Romeo).
6: Alphabet Soup.
7: Ambient Non-Combative Personnel.
8: Anschluss&#x2014;Union of Austria and Germany, 1938.
9: Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart.
10: A-OK.
11: Apartheid.
12: Appeasement.
13: Assertive Disarmament.
14: Asymmetric Warfare.
15: Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF).
16: Automated Repatriation Reporting System (ARRS).
17: Auxiliary Facilities (Sonderhilfsmittel) during the Holocaust.
18: Axis of Evil.
19: Balkanization.
20: Bamboo Curtain.
21: Banana Wars (aka American-Caribbean Wars, 1898-1934).
22: Bathing/Shower Facilities (Badeanstalten).
23: Battle Damage Assessment (BDA).
24: Bird.
25: Black Sites.
26: Blighty/Million-Dollar Wound.
27: Blitzkrieg/Lightning War.
28: Blooper (M-79 Grenade Launcher).
29: Boat People.
30: Bombs, Missiles, and Rockets&#x2014;Commonly Confused Terms.
31: Boots on the Ground.
32: Bouncing Betty.
33: Brinkmanship.
34: Bugsplat.
35: Bush Doctrine.
36: Cakewalk.
37: Canada.
38: Capping, Capped.
39: Catastrophic Success.
40: Catch-22.
41: Chair Force.
42: Checkpoint Charlie.
43: Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG).
44: Clandestine Operations.
45: Clerical Fascism.
46: Coalition for the Defense of the Republic (CDR).
47: Coalition of the Willing.
48: Cold War.
49: Collateral Damage.
50: Collectivization.
51: Combat Outpost (COP).
52: Combat Stress Reaction (CSR).
53: Comics.
54: Communist Revolutionary Warfare.
55: Compound Warfare.
56: Concentration Camps.
57: Constructive Engagement.
58: Containerized Housing Unit (CHU).
59: Containment.
60: Conventional Warfare.
61: Cordon Sanitaire.
62: Counterattack on Poland: Operation Himmler.
63: Counterinsurgency (COIN).
64: Covert Operations.
65: Culminating Point.
66: Cultural Revolution.
67: Cyber Warfare.
68: Dead-Checking.
69: Dead-Enders.
70: Decapitation Strike.
71: Deconfliction.
72: Defection.
73: Defensive Fighting Positions (DFP) and Revetments.
74: Demilitarization.
75: Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
76: Democracy.
77: Deployment Forces (Einsatzgruppen).
78: Desertion.
79: D&#x00E9;tente.
80: Deterrence.
81: Dirty War.
82: Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEF); Surrendered Enemy Forces (SEF).
83: Disgronificator.
84: Displaced Person (DP).
85: Dog Tags.
86: Dogfight.
87: Domino Theory.
88: Don&#x0027;t Ask, Don&#x0027;t Tell (DADT).
89: Draft Dodgers.
90: Dronespeak.
91: Dud.
92: Dustoff.
93: Effective Delivery of Ordnance.
94: Embedded Journalists.
95: Embrace the Suck.
96: Enemy Aliens.
97: Enemy Belligerent (Privileged/Unprivileged).
98: Enemy Combatant (Unlawful/Lawful).
99: Enhanced Interrogation.
100: Eradication, Extermination (Ausrotten, Ausmerzen).
101: Escalating Sectarian Violence.
102: Ethnic Cleansing.
103: Euthanasia (T4 Program).
104: Evil Empire.
105: Exploitation/Exploitation Force.
106: Extraordinary Rendition.
107: Extreme Prejudice.
108: Failsafe.
109: Fallout Shelters.
110: FIDO.
111: Fifth Column.
112: Final Solution of the Jewish Question (Endl&#x00F6;sung der Judenfrage).
113: Flexible Response.
114: Fog of War.
115: Forward Operating Base (FOB).
116: Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS).
117: Fourteen Points.
118: Fragging.
119: Free Fire Zone.
120: Freedom Fries, Liberty Cabbage, and Hot Dogs.
121: Freedom/Liberation.
122: Friendly Fire.
123: Fubar.
124: Geardo.
125: Genocide.
126: GITMO.
127: Glasnost.
128: Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).
129: Good Neighbor Policy.
130: Granularity.
131: Great Leap Forward.
132: Green Zone/Brown Zone.
133: Ground Zero.
134: Groundhog/Groundhog Day.
135: Grunt (Infantryman).
136: Gulags.
137: Gulf War Syndrome.
138: Holocaust.
139: Holodomor.
140: Home to the Reich&#x2014;Heim ins Reich.
141: Hot Contact Point.
142: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
143: Human Exploitation Team/Human Intelligence Exploitation Team (HET).
144: Hunter-Killer Team.
145: Hutu Ten Commandments.
146: Hybrid Warfare.
147: Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
148: Incestuous Amplification.
149: Inside/Outside the Wire.
150: Insurgency.
151: Intelligence Operations (IO).
152: Interdictional Nonsuccumbers.
153: International Civil Aviation Organization Alphabet (ICAO)/International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet (IRSA).
154: Iron Curtain.
155: Iron Triangle.
156: Irredentism.
157: Irregular Warfare (IW).
158: Jihad/Jihadism.
159: Kill Box.
160: Kill List.
161: Killing Fields.
162: Kinetic Military Action.
163: Kitchen Debate.
164: Knowns&#x2014;Known and Unknown.
165: Lebensraum.
166: Liberation.
167: Limited Duration Protective Reaction Strike.
168: Limited War.
169: Liquidation.
170: Low-Intensity Conflict (LIC).
171: LRRP (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol) Rations.
172: Madman Strategy.
173: Main Operating Base (MOB).
174: &#x201C;Man-Caused Disasters&#x201D; vs. Terrorism.
175: Mandate.
176: MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital).
177: Massive Retaliation.
178: McCarthyism.
179: Meat Eater.
180: Mercenaries.
181: MiG Alley.
182: Mild, Non-Injurious Physical Contact.
183: Military-Age Male (MAM).
184: Military Intervention.
185: MIL-Speak.
186: Mole.
187: Mother of All Battles.
188: Mouseholing.
189: Mowing the Lawn/Grass.
190: Munich Analogy.
191: Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
192: Naming the Adversary: Racist and Derogatory Slang.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Alphabetical Entries.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: The Rhetoric of Conflict.
1: Absorption.
2: Absurdistan.
3: Abuse.
4: Administrative Detention.
5: Allah&#x0027;s Waiting Room (Alfa Whisky Romeo).
6: Alphabet Soup.
7: Ambient Non-Combative Personnel.
8: Anschluss&#x2014;Union of Austria and Germany, 1938.
9: Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart.
10: A-OK.
11: Apartheid.
12: Appeasement.
13: Assertive Disarmament.
14: Asymmetric Warfare.
15: Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF).
16: Automated Repatriation Reporting System (ARRS).
17: Auxiliary Facilities (Sonderhilfsmittel) during the Holocaust.
18: Axis of Evil.
19: Balkanization.
20: Bamboo Curtain.
21: Banana Wars (aka American-Caribbean Wars, 1898-1934).
22: Bathing/Shower Facilities (Badeanstalten).
23: Battle Damage Assessment (BDA).
24: Bird.
25: Black Sites.
26: Blighty/Million-Dollar Wound.
27: Blitzkrieg/Lightning War.
28: Blooper (M-79 Grenade Launcher).
29: Boat People.
30: Bombs, Missiles, and Rockets&#x2014;Commonly Confused Terms.
31: Boots on the Ground.
32: Bouncing Betty.
33: Brinkmanship.
34: Bugsplat.
35: Bush Doctrine.
36: Cakewalk.
37: Canada.
38: Capping, Capped.
39: Catastrophic Success.
40: Catch-22.
41: Chair Force.
42: Checkpoint Charlie.
43: Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG).
44: Clandestine Operations.
45: Clerical Fascism.
46: Coalition for the Defense of the Republic (CDR).
47: Coalition of the Willing.
48: Cold War.
49: Collateral Damage.
50: Collectivization.
51: Combat Outpost (COP).
52: Combat Stress Reaction (CSR).
53: Comics.
54: Communist Revolutionary Warfare.
55: Compound Warfare.
56: Concentration Camps.
57: Constructive Engagement.
58: Containerized Housing Unit (CHU).
59: Containment.
60: Conventional Warfare.
61: Cordon Sanitaire.
62: Counterattack on Poland: Operation Himmler.
63: Counterinsurgency (COIN).
64: Covert Operations.
65: Culminating Point.
66: Cultural Revolution.
67: Cyber Warfare.
68: Dead-Checking.
69: Dead-Enders.
70: Decapitation Strike.
71: Deconfliction.
72: Defection.
73: Defensive Fighting Positions (DFP) and Revetments.
74: Demilitarization.
75: Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
76: Democracy.
77: Deployment Forces (Einsatzgruppen).
78: Desertion.
79: D&#x00E9;tente.
80: Deterrence.
81: Dirty War.
82: Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEF); Surrendered Enemy Forces (SEF).
83: Disgronificator.
84: Displaced Person (DP).
85: Dog Tags.
86: Dogfight.
87: Domino Theory.
88: Don&#x0027;t Ask, Don&#x0027;t Tell (DADT).
89: Draft Dodgers.
90: Dronespeak.
91: Dud.
92: Dustoff.
93: Effective Delivery of Ordnance.
94: Embedded Journalists.
95: Embrace the Suck.
96: Enemy Aliens.
97: Enemy Belligerent (Privileged/Unprivileged).
98: Enemy Combatant (Unlawful/Lawful).
99: Enhanced Interrogation.
100: Eradication, Extermination (Ausrotten, Ausmerzen).
101: Escalating Sectarian Violence.
102: Ethnic Cleansing.
103: Euthanasia (T4 Program).
104: Evil Empire.
105: Exploitation/Exploitation Force.
106: Extraordinary Rendition.
107: Extreme Prejudice.
108: Failsafe.
109: Fallout Shelters.
110: FIDO.
111: Fifth Column.
112: Final Solution of the Jewish Question (Endl&#x00F6;sung der Judenfrage).
113: Flexible Response.
114: Fog of War.
115: Forward Operating Base (FOB).
116: Forward Resuscitative Surgical System (FRSS).
117: Fourteen Points.
118: Fragging.
119: Free Fire Zone.
120: Freedom Fries, Liberty Cabbage, and Hot Dogs.
121: Freedom/Liberation.
122: Friendly Fire.
123: Fubar.
124: Geardo.
125: Genocide.
126: GITMO.
127: Glasnost.
128: Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).
129: Good Neighbor Policy.
130: Granularity.
131: Great Leap Forward.
132: Green Zone/Brown Zone.
133: Ground Zero.
134: Groundhog/Groundhog Day.
135: Grunt (Infantryman).
136: Gulags.
137: Gulf War Syndrome.
138: Holocaust.
139: Holodomor.
140: Home to the Reich&#x2014;Heim ins Reich.
141: Hot Contact Point.
142: House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
143: Human Exploitation Team/Human Intelligence Exploitation Team (HET).
144: Hunter-Killer Team.
145: Hutu Ten Commandments.
146: Hybrid Warfare.
147: Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
148: Incestuous Amplification.
149: Inside/Outside the Wire.
150: Insurgency.
151: Intelligence Operations (IO).
152: Interdictional Nonsuccumbers.
153: International Civil Aviation Organization Alphabet (ICAO)/International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet (IRSA).
154: Iron Curtain.
155: Iron Triangle.
156: Irredentism.
157: Irregular Warfare (IW).
158: Jihad/Jihadism.
159: Kill Box.
160: Kill List.
161: Killing Fields.
162: Kinetic Military Action.
163: Kitchen Debate.
164: Knowns&#x2014;Known and Unknown.
165: Lebensraum.
166: Liberation.
167: Limited Duration Protective Reaction Strike.
168: Limited War.
169: Liquidation.
170: Low-Intensity Conflict (LIC).
171: LRRP (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol) Rations.
172: Madman Strategy.
173: Main Operating Base (MOB).
174: &#x201C;Man-Caused Disasters&#x201D; vs. Terrorism.
175: Mandate.
176: MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital).
177: Massive Retaliation.
178: McCarthyism.
179: Meat Eater.
180: Mercenaries.
181: MiG Alley.
182: Mild, Non-Injurious Physical Contact.
183: Military-Age Male (MAM).
184: Military Intervention.
185: MIL-Speak.
186: Mole.
187: Mother of All Battles.
188: Mouseholing.
189: Mowing the Lawn/Grass.
190: Munich Analogy.
191: Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
192: Naming the Adversary: Racist and Derogatory Slang.

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