Tag: Remote Warfare
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Remote Warfare: A Debate Worth the Buzz?
Despite its definitional and conceptual ambiguities, remote warfare scholarship has invited creative thinking on many different issues connected to conflict.
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Kill Empowerment: The Proliferation of Remotely Piloted Vehicles
The US and Israel dominated the initial wave of drone proliferation, yet others have since joined in supplying weaker states with the lethal instruments in what constitutes a second wave.
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Remote Warfare in an Age of Distancing and ‘Great Powers’
The use of remote warfare has several significant problems and there can only be progress towards resolving them through discussions between communities.
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Security Cooperation as Remote Warfare: The US in the Horn of Africa
Security cooperation programmes have provided a pathway to continued intervention, the ‘remoteness’ of which applies only to the intervening actor, not local communities.
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Remote Warfare in the Sahel and a Role for the European Union
Remote warfare conducted by Western forces is shifting its focus to the Sahel and as European states try to rely less on the US security apparatus, old legal challenges.
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Human Judgment in Remote Warfare
Developers and military commanders should not merely ask which military tasks can be automated, but also ask where human judgment ought to be preserved.
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Outsourcing Death, Sacrifice and Remembrance: The Socio-Political Effects of Remote Warfare
Remote warfare removes war from certain privileged spaces and times, even at the price of maintaining a limitless condition of war elsewhere.
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Death by Data: Drones, Kill Lists and Algorithms
Legal questions surrounding the use of metadata in targeting means that an adequate, independent post-strike investigation is the bare minimum of what ‘feasible’ precautions should include.
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The Limitations and Consequences of Remote Warfare in Syria
The Syrian conflict is an example of global and regional powers waging remote warfare against their adversaries with minimum human and capital costs.
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Intelligence Sharing in Remote Warfare
The risks are rising as we move through the next major revolution in military affairs, and vigilance against eroding human rights needs to keep pace.