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Silent war
Remote warfare and the politics of silence
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Silent War reveals how silence functions as a crucial but often overlooked force in enabling and sustaining military violence. While war propaganda and discursive justifications have received significant attention, this book argues that military operations also depend on a hidden infrastructure of silence through omission, secrecy,...
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Silent War reveals how silence functions as a crucial but often overlooked force in enabling and sustaining military violence. While war propaganda and discursive justifications have received significant attention, this book argues that military operations also depend on a hidden infrastructure of silence through omission, secrecy, and tacit consent.
Focusing on drone warfare and colonial counterinsurgency, it explores how regimes of (not) listening shape what can and cannot be heard. Drawing on a multidisciplinary framework and extensive empirical researchβincluding analysis of Western parliamentary debates, UN documents, media coverage, and archival recordsβSilent War traces the enduring role of silence in legitimising imperial violence.
It reframes silence not as absence but as a constitutive force in global power relations, offering critical tools for interrogating dominant frameworks of military violence and opening space for listening otherwise.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781526169532
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 441g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Elisabeth Schweiger is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Stirling
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