Small Wars & Insurgencies, Volume 31, Issue 4 (2020)

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Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Warfare. Guest Editor: Ash Rossiter

Research Articles

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The impact of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) across the conflict spectrum
Ash Rossiter
Pages: 691-700
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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Reluctant innovators? Inter-organizational conflict and the U.S.A.’s route to becoming a drone power
Marc R. DeVore
Pages: 701-729
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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Armed, unmanned, and in high demand: the drivers behind combat drones proliferation in the Middle East
Francesco F. Milan & Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi
Pages: 730-750
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan’s Pashtun ‘tribal’ region: beginning of the end under President Trump?
Farooq Yousaf
Pages: 751-772
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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What’s in it for us? Armed drone strikes and the security of Somalia’s Federal Government
Brendon J. Cannon
Pages: 773-800
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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What’s wrong with drones? Automatization and target selection
Andree-Anne Melancon
Pages: 801-821
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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Friend or frenemy? The role of trust in human-machine teaming and lethal autonomous weapons systems
Aiden Warren & Alek Hillas
Pages: 822-850
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
AbstractforFriend or frenemy? The role of trust in human-machine teaming and lethal autonomous weapons systems | Full Text | References | PDF (1.8 MB) | EPUB
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Bots on the ground: an impending UGV revolution in military affairs?
Ash Rossiter
Pages: 851-873
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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Article
Artificial intelligence, big data and autonomous systems along the belt and road: towards private security companies with Chinese characteristics?
Peter Layton
Pages: 874-897
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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The impact of Artificial Intelligence on hybrid warfare
Guilong Yan
Pages: 898-917
Published online: 07 Jan 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Tribes and politics in Yemen: a history of the Houthi Conflict
by Marieke Brandt, London, Hurst and Company, 2017, 480pp., £30 (cloth), index ISBN 9781849046466
Maria-Louise Clausen
Pages: 918-929
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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Blood and Concrete: 21st century conflict in urban centers and megacities
edited by Dave Dilegge, Robert J Bunker, John P Sullivan and Alma Keshavarz, Washington DC, Xlibris, 2019, lx + p. 705 pp., $# (pbk), ISBN 978-1-9845-7375-9
Alice Hills
Pages: 920-923
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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To build as well as destroy: American nation building in Vietnam
by Andrew J. Gawthorpe, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2018, 258 pp., $£45.00 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-1501712807
Christian Tripodi
Pages: 923-926
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Britain, Greece and the Colonels, 1967-74: between pragmatism and human rights
by Konstantina Maragkou, London, Hurst & Company, 2019, 286 pp., £22 (cloth), ISBN 9781849043656. Available also as an ebook.
Marina Eleftheriadou
Pages: 926-929
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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