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“It’s the end of the world as we know it” is the title sequence from the lyrics of one major hit single of the U.S. rockband R.E.M. from their 1987 album Document. The song takes up and plays with notions of the apocalypse and the end of time, but is in no way fatalistic or overly pessimistic.As a matter of fact, the sequence goes on with “and I feel fine”! This is perhaps a good starting point for this introduction, because the world of international military interventions seems to have reached a turning point as well and one may well ask whether we will feel fine after this turning point.
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Giegerich, B., Kümmel, G. (2013). “The End of the World as We Know it”!? On Interventionist Overstretch, Post-Interventionism and Neo-Interventionism: An Essayist Introduction. In: Kümmel, G., Giegerich, B. (eds) The Armed Forces: Towards a Post-Interventionist Era?. Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, vol 14. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01286-1_1
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