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Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Security in the noughties: from net-centric to hybrid wars | p. 3 |
Reformulating security as a 'problematic': the role of critical security studies | p. 6 |
A map of the work | p. 8 |
The spatial operation of violence | p. 12 |
Spatial orderings: bounding the conditions of possibilities of violence | p. 15 |
Rhythm analysis: the emergence of novelty in the everyday | p. 20 |
Difference as political: the war machine and the outside of power | p. 25 |
Conclusions | p. 35 |
Interlude: the (not-so-)distant roar of battle | p. 36 |
Network-centric warfare, three-block warfare, and the new spatiality of the battlespace | p. 36 |
Urban battlespaces: the spatial logic(s) of US military doctrine meet the experimental space(s) of the city of Baghdad | p. 43 |
A praxiography of the battlespace | p. 50 |
What kind of real? | p. 50 |
A methodology for an uncertain real | p. 59 |
Interrogating the alternate real | p. 65 |
Conclusions | p. 67 |
CPOF and the battlespace multiple | p. 69 |
Locating spatial practices of violence in Baghdad | p. 69 |
Using CPOF (1): the hardware and software architecture | p. 72 |
Introducing multiplicity (in theory, in the TOC) | p. 77 |
Using CPOF (2): the human dimension | p. 79 |
Ontological singularity and multiplicity in CPOF | p. 82 |
Addressing multiplicity in the event-ful city | p. 89 |
The role of command in addressing multiplicity | p. 89 |
Correlating multiplicity in CPOF through layering | p. 96 |
Mobilizing multiplicity in CPOF through temporality | p. 98 |
Conclusions: the experimental quality of event-fulness | p. 106 |
From multiplicity to presence in Baghdad | p. 109 |
Actualizing a unit in the military: the enaction of presence | p. 113 |
Naming a 'unit-in-CPOF' | p. 118 |
Conclusions | p. 121 |
The mobile possibility of the 'unit-in-CPOF' | p. 123 |
From (chrono)linear to 'track and trace' presence | p. 123 |
The absence of the unit: exclusions, hauntings, and the limits of mobility | p. 126 |
Conclusions | p. 134 |
Conclusion | p. 137 |
The political impetus of exploring space and violence | p. 139 |
Finding a way forward for critically engaging violence | p. 141 |
Notes | p. 142 |
References | p. 154 |
Index | p. 163 |
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