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The next frontier of warfare

Laurie R. Blank (Emory): Debates and Dichotomies: Exploring the Presumptions Underlying Contentions About the Geography of Armed Conflict. Boaz Atzili and Joseph K. Young (American): For Better and Worse: Border Fixity, State Capacity, and the Geography of War. Sarah E. Light (Pennsylvania): The Military-Environmental Complex. Scott K. Taylor on weather and war, reconsidered: What the calamities of the seventeenth century can teach today’s scholars about climate change, war, and policy-making. Kyle W. Fonay on guerrilla warfare: Two takes, Mao vs. Guevara. Shawn Brimley reviews Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen. It once ruled the seas with the most powerful navy ever assembled, now Great Britain wants to dominate the next frontier of warfare: cyberspace (and more and more). What would a real cyberwar look like? Dark warnings exaggerate and distort the real risks. Is cyberwar really war? One thinker believes we’ve got it wrong — and that our category error could have real and dangerous consequences. Arthur Holland Michel interviews Peter W. Singer, author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know. Drones in theory and in practice: Jeremy Davis reviews Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military. Don Franzen reviews Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin (and am interview). Robert Evans and Brandon Bryant on 6 myths about drone warfare you probably believe.