Drones, Afghanistan, and beyond: towards analysis and assessment in context/
PAGE James Michael
Drones, Afghanistan, and beyond: towards analysis and assessment in context/ James Michael Page and John Williams - 2022
This article uses original fieldwork data in a strategically important area of Afghanistan, eastern Nangarhar province, to analyse drone effects in context. It raises important concerns about the ability of the US to attain stated counterterrorism and counterinsurgency goals. Our results show contextualised analysis of drone use necessitates appropriate enquiry into policy, doctrine, and local circumstances. It also reveals serious incoherence, inaccurate assumptions, and insufficient appreciation of local circumstances and dynamics not only in US policy and doctrine, but also numerous scholarly studies of drone use effectiveness.
AFGHANISTAN
DRONE
COUNTERTERRORISM
TERRORISM
Drones, Afghanistan, and beyond: towards analysis and assessment in context/ James Michael Page and John Williams - 2022
This article uses original fieldwork data in a strategically important area of Afghanistan, eastern Nangarhar province, to analyse drone effects in context. It raises important concerns about the ability of the US to attain stated counterterrorism and counterinsurgency goals. Our results show contextualised analysis of drone use necessitates appropriate enquiry into policy, doctrine, and local circumstances. It also reveals serious incoherence, inaccurate assumptions, and insufficient appreciation of local circumstances and dynamics not only in US policy and doctrine, but also numerous scholarly studies of drone use effectiveness.
AFGHANISTAN
DRONE
COUNTERTERRORISM
TERRORISM