Unmanned Warfare: Towards a Neo-Interventionist Era?

Schörnig, Niklas

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-01286-1_18

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“…Sa druge strane, neki već govore o oružanim intervencijama dronovima kao novom obliku intervencionizma (Schörnig, 2013;Mahmood, Jetter, 2019). I zaista, ako je u prošlosti bilo potrebno slati ekspedicioni korpus ili topovnjače da bi se nametnula svoja volja udaljenim zemljama i narodima, danas se to može postići relativno brzo, lako i neprimetno upotrebom bespilotnih letelica.…”

Section: Napadi U Stranim Državamaunclassified

Drones and International Law of Armed Conflict

Krivokapić¹

2020

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Rad se bavi nizom važnih pitanja, vezanih za upotrebu borbenih dronova, koja su važna i sa praktičnog i sa teorijskog stanovišta. Pisac prvo daje pojam i osnovne karakteristike tih letelica, a zatim ukazuje na argumente koji se ističu u njihovu korist, ali i na ozbiljne prigovore, kao što su oni u vezi sa načinom odabira mate, nedoslednošću poštovanja utvrđenih okvira, velikim udelom uzgrednih civilnih žrtava (kolateralna šteta) itd. U centralnom delu rada data je analiza napada dronovima u svetlu međunarodnog prava. Posebno su obrađeni: napadi u stranim državama (koji su, ako se vrše bez poziva ili dozvole teritorijalne države zapravo vid agresije), napadi dronovima i ljudska prava, napadi dronovima kao ciljana ubistva, problem nečasnosti, napadi na civile, status borca, pravni status operatera dronova. Autor zaključuje da dronovi iz mnogo razloga nisu obično oružje, te da bi njihov status što pre trebalo kodifikovati međunarodnim pravom, kao i da bi što pre trebalo pristupiti zaključenju univerzalnog međunarodnog sporazuma kojim bi se obezbedila zabrana širenja (proliferacije) borbenih dronova. Na kraju rada autor primećuje da se problemi vezani za dronove koriste i za pokušaje tihe, ali zato važne revizije međunarodnog prava, tj. za korake koji bi, ako bi uspeli da se ostvare, značili vraćanje na staro, na svet u kojem velike sile imaju mnogo više određene ruke nego danas.

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Section: Napadi U Stranim Državamaunclassified

Drones and International Law of Armed Conflict

Krivokapić¹

2020

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“…First, scholars point out how the horrors of interventionist ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq invoked a sense of risk aversion and war fatigue, ushering in a ‘post-interventionist’ or ‘pull-back’ era ( Duffield, 2016 ; Kümmel and Giegerich, 2013 ; Mumford, 2013 ). As a reaction, the USA and its coalition partners (but also major powers such as Russia and Saudi Arabia) have combined a resort to ‘precision’ airstrikes with a shift to smaller, clandestine, more focused interventions ( Mutschler, 2016 ; Schörnig, 2013 ). Second, scholars focus on the turn to military robotics (and drones in particular) as a key feature of interventionist warfare.…”

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An assemblage approach to liquid warfare: AFRICOM and the ‘hunt’ for Joseph Kony

Demmers

Gould

2018

Security Dialogue

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The Western state-led turn to remote forms of military intervention as recently deployed in the Middle East and across Africa is often explained as resulting from risk aversion (avoidance of ground combat), materiality (‘the force of matter’) or the adoption of a networked operational logic by major military powers, mimicking the ‘hit-and-run’ tactics of their enemies. Although recognizing the mobilizing capacities of these phenomena, we argue that the new military interventionism is prompted by a more fundamental transformation, grounded in the spatial and temporal reconfiguration of war. We see a resort to ‘liquid warfare’ as a form of military interventionism that shuns direct control of territory and populations and its cumbersome order-building and order-maintaining responsibilities, focusing instead on ‘shaping’ the international security environment through remote technology, flexible operations and military-to-military partnerships. We draw upon assemblage as a heuristic device and the case of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to flesh out the complex and fluid nature of liquid warfare and the ways by which power operates across space. We outline how the forging of a transnational military assemblage in the name of ‘hunting Kony’ allowed for the buildup of an archipelago of military bases and operational capabilities across Africa, which serve as hubs for the monitoring, disrupting and containment of potential risks and dangers.

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“…Last decade has seen a paradigmatic change in the operational processes of modern armies aerial forces, as designers and commanders have been gradually shifting their focus towards unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) [31,31,49]. Indeed, over 50% of the planes in the US today are unmanned, with this trend expected to further increase, and be adopted by additional western armies in the coming years [33,76]. Israel, as a leader of UAV technology and military adoption [35,67], is currently relying heavily on the use of UAVs in its military force, with such vehicles becoming an increasingly dominant element of its intelligence platforms.…”

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Optimal Dynamic Coverage Infrastructure for Large-Scale Fleets of Reconnaissance UAVs

Altshuler

Pentland

Bruckstein

2017

Swarms and Network Intelligence in Search

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Current state of the art in the field of UAV activation relies solely on human operators for the design and adaptation of the drones flying routes. Furthermore, this is being done today on an individual level (one vehicle per operators), with some exceptions of a handful of new systems, that are comprised of a small number of self-organizing swarms, manually guided by a human operator. Dronesbased monitoring is of great importance in variety of civilian domains, such as road safety, homeland security, and even environmental control. In its military aspect, efficiently detecting evading targets by a fleet of unmanned drones has an ever increasing impact on the ability of modern armies to engage in warfare. The latter is true both traditional symmetric conflicts among armies as well as asymmetric ones. Be it a speeding driver, a polluting trailer or a covert convoy, the basic challenge remains the same -how can its detection probability be maximized using as little number of drones as possible. In this work we propose a novel approach for the optimization of large scale swarms of reconnaissance drones -capable of producing on-demand optimal coverage strategies for any given search scenario. Given an estimation cost of the threat's potential damages, as well as types of monitoring drones available and their comparative performance, our proposed method generates an analytically provable strategy, stating the optimal number and types of drones to be deployed, in order to cost-efficiently monitor a pre-defined region for targets maneuvering using a given roads networks. We demonstrate our model using a unique dataset of the Israeli transportation network, on which different deployment schemes for drones deployment are evaluated.

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Unmanned Warfare: Towards a Neo-Interventionist Era?

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Drones and International Law of Armed Conflict

Drones and International Law of Armed Conflict

An assemblage approach to liquid warfare: AFRICOM and the ‘hunt’ for Joseph Kony

Optimal Dynamic Coverage Infrastructure for Large-Scale Fleets of Reconnaissance UAVs

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