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.
The Whispering Prussian: Clausewitz and Modern Wars
Clausewitz forged the most provocative framework of thinking about war as a human affair of passion, unpredictability and reason.
Known Unknowns: Covid-19 and Biological Warfare
The pandemic has brought the threat of bioweapons into the realm of the known, with potentially positive implications for the control of these armaments.
Guiding Principles for the Development and Use of LAWS: Version 1.0
The advent of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) presents States with new political, technological, operational, legal and ethical challenges.
Hybrid Warfare and the Role Civilians Play
The intent to destabilize and weaken a state or community with persistent, non-military-based attacks is changing the ways in which war is understood.
The Precision of Drones: Problems with the New Data and New Claims
Though startling assertions are now presented on the imprecision of drones, one must look carefully at the data to understand what conclusions can be drawn.
Like Drone Strikes, ‘Eye in the Sky’ Is Much Less Accurate than Claimed
Eye in the Sky fails to explore the real utilitarian calculations, and ethical concerns, of the US Coalition drone programme.
Review – Counterinsurgency
This expansive compilation of David Kilcullen’s major works on insurgency and counterinsurgency is vital to understanding military tactics in both pre- and post-9/11 epochs.
Oliver North: A New Low for the Military-Industrial-Entertainment Network
American geopolitical entertainment has become brutal. Games play with relish for pro-American killing & bloodlust, morally fig-leafed by patriotism.
