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Are you paying attention to Operation Odyssey Lightning, the U.S. air campaign underway for a full month now in Libya? Not many people are, which is interesting considering that we are approaching 100 airstrikes there in four weeks.
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A recent paper by Michael C. Horowitz, Sarah E. Kreps, and Matthew Furhmann pulls down to earth the sometimes extravagant predictions of the past decade that military drones are transforming warfare, and show how this is an evolutionary, not revolutionary, military technology.
China and the US do cyber surveillance. We hack the Israeli drones. What about Iran's?
Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict, by Stephanie Carvin and Michael John Williams (Cambridge UP 2015)
Jillian Schwedler argues that the U.S. drone program in Yemen is backfiring, enraging locals and contributing to a range of U.S. policy failures there.
Veteran New York Times national security reporter Scott Shane has published an excellent new book on Anwar al-Awlaki, the preacher's move from moderation to radicalism and terrorism, and the Obama administration's decision to kill him.
Peter W. Singer and August Cole's new techno-military-adventure thriller, Ghost Fleet, is both entertaining speculation and food for thought about the Next War, says Lawfare's reviewer Charles Dunlap. (Some plot spoilers ahead!)