Intimacies of
Remote Warfare
The Intimacies of Remote Warfare is an evidence-based research programme that aims to inform academic, public, and policy debates on the intimate realities of remote wars waged by advanced militaries. The programme investigates the politics, operations, technologies, and political economy of remote warfare, as well as its impact on civilian harm and blowback.
Articles
A Theory of the Drone
Book
Gregoire Chamayou's searing critique of drone warfare.
Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars
Documentary
This documentary presents an overview of remote warfare's inconvenient truths: violations of international law, loss of innocent life, psychological and societal trauma, and potential blowback.
The labor of surveillance and bureaucratized killing
Article
Peter Asaro explores what it means to be a soldier of remote warfare.
Drone Warfare in Yemen: Fostering Emirates through Counterterrorism?
Article
Hudson, Owens and Callen examine the political blowback of drone trikes in Yemen.
Drone warfare: Blowback from the New American way of war
Article
Hudson, Owens and Flannes investigate the radicalising effects of targeted killings.
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of an American Empire
Book
Chalmers Johnson on the unintended outcomes of covert operations.