Notable Quotable: Rosa Brooks On Drones And The Temptations Of Easy Killing
This article by Rosa Brooks on the US’ increasing reliance on drone strikes appeared last week in Foreign Policy. In the article, Brooks argues that the low cost and political […]
The Hidden Costs Of Drone Warfare
A French Air Force drone is released in Afghanistan in 2009: unmanned drones and cyberwarfare are set to be growth industries. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesDrone warfare is something Mad Padre […]
Thoughts on Staff Sgt. Bales, PTSD, and the Way Ahead
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales (left), the U.S. soldier who allegedly shot and killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan, at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., on Aug. 23.Defense Video […]
A Few Good Neurons: Military Implications for Neuroscience Research
The UK’s The Guardian reported yesterday on a paper by the British scientific body The Royal Society notes that current research in neuroscience has many implications for military technology and […]
The Temptations (and Dangers) of Drone Warfare
In this piece in Sunday’s NYT, Peter Singer makes some interesting and disturbing comments on the increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, in US foreign policy. By […]
“This Should Haunt All Of Us”: A US Army Officer Calls For Better Ethical Training For Soldiers
Apropros of yesterday’s post on waterboarding, here’s another take on the role of torture in contemporary warfare. H/t to Tom Ricks of the Best Defence blog for flagging this excellent […]
Notable Quotable: James Traub on What’s Going Right in Libya
I’m currently working on a professional development paper, that has me reading Anthony Shadid’s book Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War on Bagdhad before and […]
The US MIlitary – A Bastion of Socialism?
“An astonishingly liberal ethos”. That’s how Nicholas Kristoff, writing in the New York Times, desribes the US military. Our Lefty MilitaryBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFPublished: June 15, 2011 As we search […]
“Qaddafi probably shouldn’t be counting on the law to protect him”
Is it lawful (and ethical) to kill the leader of a nation, specifically Col. Qaddafi? Joshua Keating, writing for Foreign Policy, notes that there is little in the international laws […]
“We have very strict rules of engagement”: Canadian Fighter Jets Over Libya
This piece by the Globe and Mail is the best coverage I’ve seen yet of the conditions Canadian fighter crews are working in over Libya, and also discusses the constraints […]