Post-Cold War US military reconfigured around governing recalcitrance to its order

Evidence

The ponderous warfare of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in which ever greater numbers of men were amassed to face each other head-on, was now to seem like the foolish clashing of mere crowds. … The parallel lines and mechanical precision present themselves as a new conception of order. Such order was not a harmony, balance or correspondence between the forces of the world – an older kind of order whose nature I will try to evoke more carefully below – but order itself, a state defined in no other terms than the ordering of what was order-less, the coordinating of what was discontinuous. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 139 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The U.S. military invents new threats to justify its size after the Cold War.; Modern military order is coordination of the disorderly, not cosmic harmony — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 139; Foreign militaries increasingly become functional extensions of the US military.

Broader Connections

• Modern military order is coordination of the disorderly, not cosmic harmony #corroborates (0.78) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 139
• The U.S. military invents new threats to justify its size after the Cold War. #qualifies (0.75)
• Foreign militaries increasingly become functional extensions of the US military. #expands (0.70)