A New Autocratic Way of War? Autocracy, Precision Strike Warfare and Civilian Victimization
In this article by the
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, Max Mutschler and Marius Bales scrutinize precision strike technologies in modern warfare and set forth the thesis of a new autocratic way of war that - in contrast to the “new Western way of war” - is not characterized by the use of precision strike technologies for restrained civilian targeting, but by the use of these technologies for precise and deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure. They explain this by the specific characteristics of autocratic political systems, such as the restriction of effective political participation and state control of the media, which shield autocratic leaders from the domestic political costs of civilian victimization in war.
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