14. Casus: langeafstandsoorlog Flashcards
remote warfare
- delegation
- danger proofing
- darkness
technologies / strategies remote warfare
precision air bombs
drones
surveillance / data / AI
special operation forces
security cooperation with local forces
levels of remoteness
removal of military
remote knowing
remote decision making
remote targeting
removal of military
from the battlefield and frontlines
removal knowing
situational awareness through mass scale surveillance
remote decision making
shifting through data by algorithms and machine learning to make data actionable. Using predictive analysis to define what is normal/abnormal behaviour in violent conflict
remote targeting
targeting from a safe distance with or without meaningful human oversight/control
why the turn to remote warfare
- democratic risk aversion = when those who decide about war also bear the costs, they would be cautious to start a war
- networking = takes a network to defeat a network
assemblage approach
Assemblage accommodates a multiplicity of bodies that ‘team up’, under the cloak of a particular ‘threat representation’, to achieve their objectives and have a governance effec
strategic denial
you don’t get to know this because it never happened
strategic secrecy
you don’t get to know this because that would compromise security
strategic ignorance
you don’t get to know this, because we don’t know it, because it can’t be known
conclusions remote war
Make strange’ and ‘make visible’ the normalization of remote warfare as the ‘lesser evil’.
Analysis, dissemination and debate on the intimate realities of this way of war.
The use of remote strategies calls for an update in our definitions of war and political decision-making procedures.
