An Artificiality of War: Social Construction of Organized Violence
This is part one of a nine part series where I share some current research that I am working on concerning the nature of human conflict and how our species socially constructs reality within which, we clash swords, fling missiles, and destroy tangible and intangible constructs. This was something I worked on originally as a book chapter, but since then re-organized my third book project so that many of these concepts become their own dedicated chapter. So, this will be put here at Medium as an example of the writing process that I personally like to perform: Creating rough drafts, flinging them in series online, re-tooling them, and eventually getting to the great book projects that we usually want to dive into immediately, often unprepared. My preparation is as follows- research, think, write, edit, post, write more, edit more, post more, refine, and eventually cobble together a book. Somewhere in there is arguing with editors…
The terms war and warfare are used in a particular manner throughout this work and require immediate clarification to readers, specifically those accustomed to one dominant (western) war philosophy that is systemic across much of the modern military profession. Today’s military profession and by extension, the vast majority of International Relations theory, security affairs, foreign policy and defense…
