Over the past two decades, use of U.S. military force has shifted from an exceptional act governed by law and public accountability to a flexible, discretionary instrument of policy. This article examines how post-9/11 legal authorities, institutional convergence, and secrecy have eroded the boundaries between war, intelligence, and governance—producing a system of permanent, unbounded conflict.
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I disagree with the opening. What about Laos and Vietnam? Korea? Somalia? The Gulf wars? I don’t see any difference between what America is doing today to what they were doing before, besides the visible reality that America doesn’t have the same relative power and will now focus on their region more than the whole world (still tried it with Iran though, but I guess that makes sense since Israel is an American proxy and that means Iran is part of the American sphere).