Khyati Singh’s Paper ‘Screening the irregular war: cinematic historiography as a strategic narrative in post–9/11 counterinsurgency’ Published in Small Wars and Insurgencies Journal
February 4, 2026
Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Ms Khyati Singh’s paper ‘Screening the irregular war: cinematic historiography as a strategic narrative in post–9/11 counterinsurgency’ has been published in the Small Wars and Insurgencies Journal on 04 February 2026.
The paper examines how post–9/11 Hollywood war films – specifically Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and American Sniper (2014) – function as strategic narratives that construct a historical memory of irregular warfare significantly divergent from archival records, writes Ms Singh.
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