Lawfare and Remote Warfare
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Reviewing Craig Jones' research on the instrumental use of law in justifying and enabling remote warfare.
Optimizing Coalition Air Warfare: The Emergence and Ethical Dilemmas of Red Card Holder Teams
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Jacobsen and Saugmann examine the operationalisation of international law through Red Card Holders in collaborative military interventions.
Buy now, pay later: American military intervention and the strategic cost paradox
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Thomas Waldman explores how attempts at avoiding short-term political costs of war increase longer-term political and security costs.
Humanitized violence: Targeted killings and civilian deaths in the US war against the Islamic State
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Bonds charts the rise of 'humanitized violence' in the war against ISIS.
An assemblage approach to liquid warfare: AFRICOM and the ‘hunt’ for Joseph Kony
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Demmers and Gould analyse AFRICOM and the ‘hunt’ for Joseph Kony as an example of 'liquid warfare'.
Remote Warfare and its discontents
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Blog post on transparency, accountability and scrutiny in remote warfare.
Eyes in the sky – bodies on the ground
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Gregory on the human impacts of technological warfare.
Vicarious warfare: The counterproductive consequences of modern American military practice
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Thomas Waldman details how delegation, darkness and danger-proofing contribute to blowback effects for states waging remote warfare.
Externalizing the Burden of War: the Obama Doctrine and US foreign policy in the Middle East
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Krieg on the light footprints and dark shadows of US foreign policy under Obama.
The labor of surveillance and bureaucratized killing
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Peter Asaro explores what it means to be a soldier of remote warfare.