Winning wars: the triumphs and myths of technology

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Author(s): Lily Hamourtziadou , Jonathan Jackson

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Publication date (Print): 1 December 2019

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Dr Lily Hamourtziadou is a Senior Lecturer in Security Studies and Deputy Course Director at the Department of Criminology at Birmingham City University, and Principal Researcher for Iraq Body Count (IBC).

Jonathan Jackson is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Programme Director in Policing at Birmingham City University.

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Fowler, M. (2014) “The Strategy of Drone Warfare,” Journal of Strategic Security 7(4), Special Issue Winter: 108–119.
Gokay, B. & Hamourtziadou, L. (2015) “Body Counting and Precision Bombing in Failed States,” Open Democracy, 5 December, www.opendemocracy.net/en/body-counting-and-precision-bombing-in-failed-states/ (accessed 10 September 2019).
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[1] Cameron, D. (2014) House of Commons, Debate “Iraq: Coalition Against ISIL,” 26 September, https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm140926/debtext/140926-0001.htm (accessed 1 September 2019).

[2] Casey-Maslen, S. (2012) “Pandora's Box? Drone Strikes Under jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and Human Rights Law,” International Review of the Red Cross 94: 886, Summer Issue.

[3] Chamayou, G. (2015) Drone Theory, New York Penguin.

[4] Cockburn, A. (2016) Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-tech Assassins, Verso: London.

[5] Crosston, M. (2014) “Pandora's Presumption: Drones and the Problematic Ethics of Techno-War,” Journal of Strategic Security 7(4), Special Issue Winter: Future Challenges in Drone Geopolitics. pp. 1–24

[6] Fowler, M. (2014) “The Strategy of Drone Warfare,” Journal of Strategic Security 7(4), Special Issue Winter: 108–119.

[7] Gokay, B. & Hamourtziadou, L. (2015) “Body Counting and Precision Bombing in Failed States,” Open Democracy, 5 December, www.opendemocracy.net/en/body-counting-and-precision-bombing-in-failed-states/ (accessed 10 September 2019).

[8] Hsiao-Rei Hicks, M., Dardagan, H., Guerrero Serdán, G., Bagnall, P., Sloboda, J. & Spagat, M. (2009) “The Weapons that Kill Civilians : Deaths of Children and Noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–2008,” The New England Journal of Medicine 360: 158–1588, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0807240

[9] Jordan, D., Kiras, J.D., Lonsdale, D.J., Speller, I., Tuck, C. & Walton, C.D. (2008) Understanding Modern Warfare, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[10] Krieg, A. (2016) “Externalising the Burden of War: The Obama Doctrine and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” International Affairs 92(1): 97–113.

[11] New York Times (2015) “When War Comes Close to Home,” 4 October.

[12] Rahim, N., Nordland, R., & Abed, F. (2019) “After Deadly Insider Attack, US Airstrikes Kill 14 Civilians, Afghans Say,” New York Times, 23 March.

[13] Rudic, F. (2017) “Serbia Mourns 1999 Bombing Victims; Kosovo Thanks NATO,” BalkanInsight. com, https://balkaninsight.com/2017/03/24/serbia-marks-18th-anniversary-of-nato-bombing-03-24-2017/, 24 March. Accessed 31 August 2019

[14] Strachan, H. (2014). The First World War: A New History, London: Penguin.