Remote Warfare Round-up 008
The Remote Warfare roundup is a bi-weekly digest of unfolding news, op-eds and reports relevant to remote warfare.
Operations
The Practices of Remote Warfare
Waging warfare remotely is seldom straightforward. Long-distance battles in far-flung locations against elusive enemies often requires close partnerships with military and political actors on the ground. Such alliances manifest across a range of social and material domains in the form of political partnerships, military-to-military training programmes and logistical collaborations. They may be widely-recognised and institutionalised, or shadowy and transient. Common to them all is the fact that all conflicts ultimately play out locally.
Here you will find our own research output and a variety of other thematically relevant publications, blogs, events and podcasts we have been inspired by in our investigations into the Intimacies of Remote Warfare.
E-IR book ‘Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’
In their contributed chapter in the new ‘Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives’ E-IR book, IRW’s Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould explore how the secrecy surrounding remote warfare removes war from public debate and potentially makes states more violent.
Military & Technology: In Their Own Words
‘The conversation is not about the morality of going to war, but rather the technology of winning’ claims former US Marine Anthony Swofford in article for MIT Technology Review.
Crowded Skies: Drones in Nagorno-Karabakh
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.
Remote Warfare and the Utility of Military and Security Contractors
Forthcoming chapter from the E-International Relations Book “Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
How Would a Military Drawdown Affect U.S. Engagement in Africa?
World Politics Review podcast interviewing journalist Peter Tinti on the evolution of US military engagement in Africa.
Optimizing Coalition Air Warfare: The Emergence and Ethical Dilemmas of Red Card Holder Teams
Jacobsen and Saugmann examine the operationalisation of international law through Red Card Holders in collaborative military interventions.
Shaping the Borderlands: the spatial and temporal reconfigurations of modern warfare
Talk at the Conceptualising Remote Warfare conference.
Liquid Warfare: AFRICOM and its pop-up militarization
Security Dialogue Author’s blog on AFRICOM and its pop-up militarization.
The Security Dialogue Podcast
Antoine Bousquet interviews Jolle Demmers and Lauren Gould about the assemblage approach to liquid warfare with reference to AFRICOM and the ‘hunt’ for Joseph Kony.
An assemblage approach to liquid warfare
Demmers and Gould analyse AFRICOM and the ‘hunt’ for Joseph Kony as an example of ‘liquid warfare’.
Lawful but Awful? Legal and Political Challenges of Remote Warfare and Working with Partners
Knowles and Watson explore the legal grey zones of British military partnering.
The Intimacies of Remote Warfare Conference
International seminar on the changing nature of warfare, held 6-7th December 2017
Defining Remote Warfare: Security Cooperation
Watts and Biegon examine practices of Remote Warfare on the ground.
National Bird
This documentary tells the human stories of the individuals tasked with carrying out remote warfare and the toll it takes.
Externalizing the Burden of War: the Obama Doctrine and US foreign policy in the Middle East
Krieg on the light footprints and dark shadows of US foreign policy under Obama.
Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars
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: new subjectivities of military drone operators
Peter Asaro explores what it means to be a soldier of remote warfare.