Can drones coerce? The effects of remote aerial coercion in counterterrorism

Grieco, Kelly A.; Hutto, Jonathan Wesley

doi:10.1057/s41311-021-00320-5

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“…Noting the limitations of Remote Warfare, Grieco and Hutto consider the effectiveness of drones-weapons that are integral to the fulfilment Remote Warfare-as instruments of coercion. Together they argue that remote control drones are fundamentally different from traditional airpower, "owing to changes in persistence, lethality, and relative risk" and that critically "these technological characteristics produce weaker coercive effects than often assumed" (Grieco & Hutto 2021) Put simply, Grieco and Hutto (2021) help us to consider the practical limitations of Remote Warfare when deployed in an attempt to effectively counter and coerce terrorist organisations. Indeed, it is with these technological drawbacks in mind that we turn to the work of Ash Rossiter.…”

Section: Rethinking Remote Warfarementioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking remote warfare

Rogers

2023

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Remote Warfare is a product of the bellicose twenty-first century in which we live. Promises of a century, that would shun violence, revere international law, and outshine the darkness of the Cold War, have long since fallen by the wayside. Instead, the tragic events of 9/11, 2001, led the USA and its allies down the path to war and to the unforeseen consequences that transpired. As Sir Michael Howard argued back in 2006, ‘President Bush’s declaration of a “War Against Terror” was a war for which the United States claimed a hunter’s licence to use force anywhere in the world and the right to dispense with all the restraints of international law that they had done so much to create’ (Howard, 2006). This special issue analyses the legacies and emerging international implications of this ‘hunter’s licence’ and the remote military technologies/remote practices of Western warfare that were pioneered to fulfil it.

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Section: Rethinking Remote Warfarementioning

confidence: 99%