Rosa Brooks on "How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything"
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🗓️ 30 September 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Rosa Brooks joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about her new book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon. The book covers an extraordinary range of territory, from Brooks' personal experiences working as a civilian advisor at the Pentagon, to the history of the laws of war, to an analysis of the U.S. military's expanded role in a world in which the lines between war and peace are increasingly uncertain.
How should we think about the military’s responsibilities outside the realm of traditional warfare? And is it desirable, or even possible, to rethink the way we approach the distinctions between wartime and peacetime?
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| 0:29.0 | The Old Norse and the Navajo and the Macayote Indians of Micronesia and modern Americans |
| 0:39.0 | can and do and have to find war and what it means to be a warrior |
| 0:44.0 | in different ways at different times and can change them. |
| 0:47.0 | They're not set in stone, that even though the idea of the categories |
| 0:51.0 | may be something that is obviously really goes very deep in human society, |
| 0:58.0 | that that doesn't dictate what's in the category. |
| 1:01.0 | So one way around the problem is you can say, I don't care, you can call it a war for all I care. |
| 1:05.0 | Go ahead, it doesn't matter, it's just a word. |
| 1:08.0 | But then let's say that we're not instead of having one set of rules that apply for armed conflicts |
| 1:13.0 | to oversimplify it somewhat. |
| 1:15.0 | We're gonna have a much more layered system that says, hey, they're all different kinds of armed conflicts |
| 1:22.0 | and we're gonna have different sets of institutions and rules for different ones |
| 1:26.0 | even though we're gonna call them all the same thing. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm Quinted Dressick and this is the Law Fair Podcast, October 1st, 2016. |
| 1:34.0 | That was Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown University, a columnist at Foreign Policy, |
| 1:40.0 | and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. |
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