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Producing the Not-Civilian: Military-Age Males as Visual Identifier

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Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare

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Visual cues have always been central to the laws of war. Wearing a military uniform becomes a visual guide to distinguishing combatants from civilians. Insurgencies, however, frustrate this distinction. According to both the American and international laws of armed conflict, combatants and civilians occupy distinct categories. This difference is known as the principle of distinction.

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Shoker, S. (2021). Producing the Not-Civilian: Military-Age Males as Visual Identifier. In: Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52474-6_2

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