Officially referred to as “unit watch” and more colloquially as “buddy watch,” the use of continuous direct observation and restrictive measures enforced by peers is a widely used, though controversial, tool in the US Army's suicide prevention efforts. Borrowing from the Army concept and system of the battle buddy, the partnering of soldiers who assist each other in and out of combat, the unit watch is simultaneously conceived as a means of “family” concern, treatment, surveillance, restraint, and even mentorship. Drawing on fieldwork among soldiers and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, I explore what the practice of unit watch reveals about institutional and psychiatric interventions as a form of constraint‐as‐care in settings of global US military power. I emphasize the bodily and affective dimensions of the unit watch and the forms of sociality, including coerced obligation and forced intimacy, that the unit watch can produce. Soldiers’ accounts of being watched and watching others under the sign of unauthorized violence also highlight the tense and ambivalent nature of managing suicide in material, institutional, and geopolitical settings organized for the production of violence.

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好友监视：战争中军事自杀风险管理的关注下的关怀与约束

正式被称为“单位监视”，通称“伙伴监视”，使用连续直接观察和同伴实施的限制性措施是美国陆军预防自杀工作中广泛使用的（尽管有争议的）工具。借用陆军作战伙伴的概念和体系，在战斗中相互协助的士兵的配合，单位监视同时被视为一种“家庭”关怀，治疗，监视，克制甚至指导的手段。借助伊拉克和阿富汗战争中士兵和退伍军人的野外工作，我探索了单位监视的实践揭示了机构和精神科干预，这是对美国全球军事力量设置的一种约束保重形式。我强调单位手表的身体和情感维度以及单位手表可以产生的社会形式，包括强迫义务和强迫亲密关系。士兵在未经授权的暴力迹象下被监视和监视他人的陈述，也突显了在为制造暴力而组织的物质，机构和地缘政治环境中管理自杀的紧张和矛盾的本质。