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– The Editors

Notes

¹ For recent contributions to this debate, see Todd S. Sechser, Neil Narang & Caitlin Talmadge, ‘Emerging technologies and strategic stability in peacetime, crisis, and war’, Journal of Strategic Studies 42/6 (2019), 727–735; Ben Garfinkel & Allan Dafoe, ‘How does the offense-defense balance scale?’ Journal of Strategic Studies 42/6 (2019), 736–763; Michael C. Horowitz, ‘When speed kills: Lethal autonomous weapon systems, deterrence and stability’, Journal of Strategic Studies 42/6 (2019), 764–788; Heather Williams, ‘Asymmetric arms control and strategic stability: Scenarios for limiting hypersonic glide vehicles’, Journal of Strategic Studies 42/6 (2019), 789–813; Tristan A. Volpe, ‘Dual-use distinguishability: How 3D-printing shapes the security dilemma for nuclear programs’, Journal of Strategic Studies 42/6 (2019), 814–840; Jacquelyn Schneider, ‘The capability/vulnerability paradox and military revolutions: Implications for computing, cyber, and the onset of war’, 841–863; Caitlin Talmadge, ‘Emerging technology and intra-war escalation risks: Evidence from the Cold War, implications for today’, Journal of Strategic Studies 42/6 (2019), 864–887; Samuel Zilincik, ‘Technology is awesome, but so what?! Exploring the relevance of technologically inspired awe to the construction of military theories’, Journal of Strategic Studies 45/1 (2022), 5–32; Cameron Hunter & Bleddyn E. Bowen, ‘We’ll never have a model of an AI major-general: Artificial Intelligence, command decisions, and kitsch visions of war’, Journal of Strategic Studies 47/1 (2024), 116–146.

² On the political risks of drone warfare also see Erik Gartzke, ‘Blood and robots: How remotely piloted vehicles and related technologies affect the politics of violence’, Journal of Strategic Studies 44/7 (2021), 983–1013.

³ For his earlier contribution to discussions of future war, see Anthony King, ‘Will inter-state war take place in cities?’, Journal of Strategic Studies 45/1 (2022), 69–95.

⁴ Also see Amy Zegart, ‘Cheap fights, credible threats: The future of armed drones and coercion’, Journal of Strategic Studies 43/1 (2020), 6–46.

⁵ On NATO alliance politics, also see Jeffrey H. Michaels, ‘No annihilation without representation’: NATO nuclear use decision-making during the Cold War Journal of Strategic Studies 46/5 (2023), 1010–1036.

⁶ For additional recent work on Somalia, see Stefano Recchia, ‘Pragmatism over principle: US intervention and burden shifting in Somalia, 1992–1993’, Journal of Strategic Studies 43/3 (2020), 341–365; Paul D. Williams, ‘Building the Somali National Army: Anatomy of a failure, 2008–2018’ Journal of Strategic Studies 43/3 (2020), 366–391.