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Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Military-Age Males in Counterinsurgency and Drone Warfare (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book documents the political ecosystem that legitimized
violent military action against military-age males in US military
operations after September 11, 2001. It first introduces the
military-age male as a category used to identify insurgent
combatants who have blended into civilian environments. Though US
officials maintained that military-age males were not automatically
assumed to be combatants, defense and intelligence professionals
nevertheless used biases related to gender, age, religion and race
to interpret the battlespace. Based on an analysis of the Obama
administration's decision to exclude adolescent boys and men from
drone warfare's collateral damage count, and an examination of
similar problems with combatant identification under the Bush
administration, the author argues that the military-age male
category contributed to the deterioration of civilian protection.
The concluding chapters discusses the link between
counterinsurgency, drone warfare, and emerging trends in artificial
intelligence and autonomy in weapons systems, highlighting the
relation between algorithmic discrimination and the
misidentification of civilians as combatants.
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