Military Critique

With a foreword by Johan Galtung
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Military Critique / Militärkritik
With a foreword by Johan Galtung
In this book, Ekkehart Krippendorf seeks to make targeted interventions in the public discourse on the role of the military. Or perhaps more accurately, to agitate for the emergence of such a discourse, since public debate on the role of the military within society is still caught in an embryonic phase.
In this book, Ekkehart Krippendorf seeks to make targeted interventions in the public discourse on the role of the military. Or perhaps more accurately, to agitate for the emergence of such a discourse, since public debate on the role of the military within society is still caught in an embryonic phase.
1993, 225 pages
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