An Empire of Imagination, Sweat and Blood

Klaus Ian

New Global Studies, 2008, vol. 2, issue 1, 13

Abstract: This article uses photographs and first-hand reporting to illustrate the complications and challenges for a battalion of Army engineers in imagining and preparing for deployment. It follows the battalion during their preparation in a mock-Afghanistan in Washington State, while also detailing their previous deployment in southern Afghanistan. From the metropole, the outer reaches of Empire can be distant lands of the imagination--places once known through spices and poems, now through second-hand stories and news. Such stories and imagination, it seems, can only go so far when one is ultimately to serve in said far-flung frontier.

Keywords: Afghanistan; U.S. Army; war (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.2202/1940-0004.1028

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