Anniversaries as Security‑Policy Engines

Commemorative anniversaries (here, the 25th of 9/11) are often used not only to recall victims but to re‑legitimize and normalize particular security doctrines — especially preemption and global counter‑terror tactics. Such pieces of public memory convert cultural unity into political capital for continued surveillance, detention, and strike policies. — If anniversaries routinely become moments to institutionalize aggressive security norms, they will shape domestic politics, civil liberties debates, and foreign‑policy defaults for years after the original event.