{"id":10527,"date":"2017-07-25T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:22:31","slug":"let-the-drones-lead-us-down-the-path-of-good-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/25\/let-the-drones-lead-us-down-the-path-of-good-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Let The Drones Lead Us Down The Path Of Good Intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0Jacqueline Hazelton analyzes<\/a> the use of drones in the context of US foreign policy on Lawfare<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Analyzing drone strikes in this way determines that they\u00a0provide little political benefit<\/a>to the United States. As a tactical use of force against terrorists, attacks by U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles in under-governed spaces without public permission by the state may achieve\u00a0short-term<\/a>\u00a0goals such as\u00a0leadership decapitation<\/a>\u00a0at relatively lower financial and\u00a0human<\/a>\u00a0cost<\/a>\u00a0than<\/a>\u00a0strikes by crewed craft. Drone strikes can support a handful of\u00a0partnerships<\/a>\u00a0with weak, repressive states facing\u00a0domestic terrorism or insurgency<\/a>\u00a0that the United States believes also pose a threat to itself. But the strikes cannot generate significant popular or state support for U.S. interests or policies or do serious political damage to U.S. adversaries. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Questions about drone strikes must stretch beyond concerns about anti-Americanism, radicalization, and terrorism to consider the strikes’ political utility for broader U.S. interests. This analysis finds that whether one identifies anti-Americanisms as a significant threat to U.S. interests or not, and whether one identifies terrorism as a major threat to the United States or not, the role of drone strikes in assuring U.S. security at home and abroad is quite limited and\u00a0likely to become more so<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0counter-drone efforts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0others’ acquisition of drones<\/a>\u00a0reduce U.S. air supremacy, as seen with the\u00a0Islamic State<\/a>\u00a0in Syria and Iraq and as the United States again\u00a0faces<\/a>\u00a0state<\/a>\u00a0rather than non-state\u00a0adversaries<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And leaves me with the question of whether the use of drones was purely a decision based on the politics of the moment by President Obama, or served more purposes than that. I’d like to think that his ability to plan for the long-term dictated the multi-purpose use of drones.<\/p>\n

On another level, the development and use of drones is an effective demonstration to the world, to allies and enemies alike, of the efficacy of just such weapons – and possibly an inspiration. I can’t help but wonder if the enemies would have pursued the development of weaponry delivered by drones if the United States had declared that an investigation had yielded negative results?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0Jacqueline Hazelton analyzes the use of drones in the context of US foreign policy on Lawfare: Analyzing drone strikes in this way determines that they\u00a0provide little political benefitto the United States. As a tactical use of force against terrorists, attacks by U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles in under-governed spaces without public \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10529,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions\/10529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}