The War on Immigrants: Changing Military Culture

Abstract

This Comment responds to two central claims of Rosa Brooks’s How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, namely that there’s “nothing solid” behind concerns about a vastly expanded military and that the terms “military” and “civilian” are human constructs without predetermined meaning. This analysis draws upon immigration law and policy to identify at least five concerns about the expansion of military capacity: the enforcement mentality; limited understanding of foreign cultures; racism; access to leadership; and structures of inequality. This Comment argues that accepting the militarization of everything is a mistake, and that multiple cultures are necessary to identify and implement more effective solutions to global problems.