Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Chapter
Bringing together writers from various backgrounds, this edited volume offers a critical enquiry into the use and impact of remote warfare.
Remote Warfare Commentary Round-up 7
Commentary
The Remote Warfare roundup commentary is a bi-weekly digest of unfolding news, op-eds and reports relevant to remote warfare.
How Remote Warfare Blows Back: A Case Study of Hawija
Project
The IRW teams up with Pax and introduces a new Community Engagement Learning project to study the reverberating effects of the Dutch airstike on Hawija, Iraq.
How are novel military technologies changing modern conflicts?
Conference
Don't miss IRW Director Dr Lauren Gould speaking about how novel military technologies are changing modern conflict at NGO PAX's online symposium.
The Netherlands is trying to maintain the myth of a ‘clean’ war
Op-ed
In his latest op-ed published in the daily paper Trouw, Jip van Dort raises a rather sinister question: What exactly do we (or are we allowed to) know about the dark side of warfare, specifically about civilian casualties?
More drones, more war
Op-ed
The notion that deploying drones will enable militaries to conduct war with greater precision and less civilian harm is neither new, nor accurate argues the IRW team in an op-ed for the Dutch newspaper the NRC.
How Remote is Remote Warfare?
Events
Watch Intimacies of Remote Warfare project founder Prof. Jolle Demmers tackling the big questions surrounding remote warfare and call for more transparency in her recent talk for Stadium Generale.
Crowded Skies: Drones in Nagorno-Karabakh
Commentary
Whilst a deluge of video clips showing drone-captured footage of air and missile strikes on seemingly defenceless ground vehicles led some to proclaim the 'death of the tank', this may have been an overestimation of the real impact drones had in the conflict.
The Risks of Special Forces Being Used Illegally
Commentary
In a recent article for the Human Security Centre, IRW’s Jack Davies argues that SOF lack political oversight and legal accountability.
Remote Warfare & Civilian Harm: MoD Roadmap Towards more Transparency
Project
IRW works with the Dutch MoD to review the way in which it deals with, reports on and accounts for civilian harm as a consequence of Dutch military efforts.