Remote warfare – Buzzword or Buzzkill?. Issue 4 (2nd October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Biegon, Rubrick; Rauta, Vladimir; Watts, Tom F. A.
• Is Part Of: Defence studies. Volume 21:Issue 4(2021)
• Page Start: 427
• Page End: 446
• Publication Date: 2021-10-02
• Subjects: Remote warfare -- contemporary conflict -- security studies -- international security; Military policy -- Periodicals; International relations -- Periodicals; National security -- Periodicals; Defensive (Military science) -- Periodicals; 355.0305
• DOI: 10.1080/14702436.2021.1994396
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-2436

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The debates around remote warfare have grown significantly over the last decade, leading to the term acquiring a certain buzz in the media, think-tank, and policy discourse. The lack of any serious attempt to reflect and take stock of this body of scholarship informs the scope of this special issue, in general, and of this article in particular. This paper addresses this former gap and, in doing so, serves a threefold purpose. First, to provide a state-of-the-art review of this emerging debate. Second, to both categorise what properties make a buzzword and to make the case for why existing remote warfare scholarship should be approached in this way. Third, to introduce how the various contributions to this special issue extend the debate's conceptual, theoretical, and empirical parameters.