A War at the End of Empire: The Militarization of America and Matt Gallagher’s Empire City by Ari Räisänen

“…Literature written by veterans of the War on Terror provides a unique—and often overlooked—instrument for the mapping and navigation of this cultural terrain enveloped by “forever war.” I use Matt Gallagher’s novel Empire City (2020) as a case study to explore how contemporary veteran literature interrogates the relationship between state violence at home and abroad. …”
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Aporia, dissemination, and simulacra as deconstructive tools in analyses of political agendas in selected works of Greg Bear and Joe Haldeman by Jubouri, Thamer A.

“…This study applied the concepts of aporia, dissemination, and simulacra from a deconstructive perspective to analyse the effect of political agendas in Greg Bear’s Moving Mars (1993), Vitals (2002), and War Dogs (2014) and Joe Haldeman’s Tool of the Trade (1987), The Forever War (1974), and Forever Peace (1997). The study’s gap resulted in scrutinising hidden political agendas that harness scientifically advanced weapons to destroy human lives. …”
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Passive Politics and Poetics of Spiritual Resistance in Taliban Afghanistan by M. Nazif Shahrani

“…Peoples of Central Asia in general and Afghanistan specifically have been traumatized by Western colonial aggression, occupation and low intensity forever wars for more than a century. Much has been written about their armed struggles in this region, but their passive and spiritual resistances have been for the most part ignored. …”
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The United States in a World of Great Power Competition by J. Mankoff

“…The shift to great power competition as the foundation for U.S. foreign policy represents an acknowledgment that the “forever wars” in the Middle East had become an expensive, strategically dubious distraction from the more pressing challenge posed by a revanchist Russia and a rising China. …”
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