ABSTRACT
The recent upsurge of critical social scientific analyses of surveillance has been overwhelmingly dominated by attempts to theorize and analyze the complex relations between surveillance, citizenship, social control, governmentality and social relations. Whilst the emerging discipline of surveillance studies has built on this foundation to theorize the connections between globalization, new technologies and social and political power within contemporary civil societies, it has strikingly neglected another extremely important domain of political and social power. This neglect is especially problematic because this domain of power has been a prime, perhaps even dominant, force in imagining, bringing in to existence, and normalizing new surveillance techniques, technologies and practices since the origins of modern societies. This domain, of course, is that of military power.
