Trump's drone surge: outsourcing the war machine
In: Middle East report: MER ; Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 2-8
ISSN: 0888-0328, 0899-2851
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In: Middle East report: MER ; Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 2-8
ISSN: 0888-0328, 0899-2851
World Affairs Online
In: Security dialogue, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 185-202
ISSN: 1460-3640
In the twilight of the USA's ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there has been an expanding shadow war of targeted killings and drone strikes outside conventional war zones, where violence is largely disappeared from media coverage and political accountability. While many attribute the growth in these shadowy operations to the use of new technologies and platforms such as drones, this article argues that the central transformation enabling these operations is the increasing emergence of network forms of organization within and across the US military and related agencies after 2001. Drawing upon evidence from unclassified reports, academic studies, and the work of investigative journalists, this article will show that elements within the US military and related agencies developed in the decade after 2001 a form of shadow warfare in which hybrid blends of hierarchies and networks combine through common information and self-synchronization to mount strike operations across transnational battle spaces. But, rather than a top-down transformation towards networks, this article will show how it was the evolution of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) from an elite strike force into a largely autonomous networked command that has been central to this process. Although drone strikes have received the bulk of critical attention in relation to this expanding shadow war of targeted killing, this often-lethal networked warfare increasingly resembles a global and possibly permanent policing operation in which targeted operations are used to manage populations and threats in lieu of addressing the social and political problems that produce the threats in the first place.
In: Security dialogue, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 185-202
ISSN: 0967-0106
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 115-116
ISSN: 1533-8614
In: Journal of Palestine studies: a quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 115-116
ISSN: 0377-919X, 0047-2654
In: Journal of Palestine studies: a quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 115-117
ISSN: 0377-919X, 0047-2654
In: Middle East report: MER ; Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Band 40, Heft 255, S. 30-33
ISSN: 0888-0328, 0899-2851
World Affairs Online
In: Middle East report: MER ; Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 30-39
ISSN: 0888-0328, 0899-2851
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 110-111
ISSN: 1533-8614
In: Journal of Palestine studies: a quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 110
ISSN: 0377-919X, 0047-2654
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 102-104
ISSN: 1533-8614
In: Journal of Palestine studies: a quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 102-104
ISSN: 0377-919X, 0047-2654
In: Journal of Palestine studies: a quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 102-103
ISSN: 0377-919X, 0047-2654
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 33-38
ISSN: 1469-9982
In: Peace review: the international quarterly of world peace, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 33-38
ISSN: 1040-2659