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The first book to analyze the legacies of Remote Warfare, this study is unique in its focus on the myriad ways in which Western-pioneered strategies of war are impacting our modern world. With a focus on drones, AI, and next-generation weapons technologies, this edited collection brings together an innovative interdisciplinary group of expert policymakers, academics, humanitarians, industry leaders, and those from military institutions to discuss some of the most influential and important topics under debate in security studies, international politics, law, and international relations today. From the Global War on Terror to the Russia-Ukraine War, this book explains how the high-tech wars of the 2020s emerged and explores what the future of warfare is likely to be.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Legacies of Remote Warfare.- Chapter 2: Phenomenon and experience: searching for the civilian in an age of remote warfare.- Chapter 3: International law is dead, long live international law: the state practice of drone strikes.- Chapter 4: Blurred lines: the convergence of military and civilian uses of AI & data and its impact on liberal democracy.- Chapter 5: Can drones coerce? The effects of remote aerial coercion in counterterrorism.- Chapter 6: Light footprint heavy destabilising impact in Niger: why the Western understanding of remote warfare needs to be reconsidered.- Chapter 7: The (Over)Promise of Remote Warfare in the Age of AI.- Chapter 8: Drones all the way down: the evolution of (remote) war on the battlefields of Ukraine, 2022-2025.- Chapter 9: Not so remote drone warfare.- Chapter 10: Is it over now? The legacies of remote warfare.
About the author
James Patton Rogers is Executive Director of the Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University.
James Wesley Hutto is Associate Professor of Military Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS).
Summary
The first book to analyze the legacies of Remote Warfare, this study is unique in its focus on the myriad ways in which Western-pioneered strategies of war are impacting our modern world. With a focus on drones, AI, and next-generation weapons technologies, this edited collection brings together an innovative interdisciplinary group of expert policymakers, academics, humanitarians, industry leaders, and those from military institutions to discuss some of the most influential and important topics under debate in security studies, international politics, law, and international relations today. From the Global War on Terror to the Russia-Ukraine War, this book explains how the high-tech wars of the 2020s emerged and explores what the future of warfare is likely to be.
