MARY DUDZIAK’S TITLE has two words because she wants to emphasize the role of “time” in legal and public thinking about the fight against Al Qaeda and in earlier militarized conflicts. Dudziak argues that “‘wartime’ is necessarily entering a temporary condition. Built into the concept of wartime is the assumption of an inevitable endpoint.” And yet, she says, “war has become part of the normal course of American life.”
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