Killing over Kunduz
This is the second in a new series of posts on military violence against hospitals and medical personnel in conflict zones. It examines the US attack on the Trauma Centre run by Médecins Sans...
View ArticleKilling cities
In a perceptive commentary on the ground-breaking investigation by Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal into civilian casualties caused by the US air campaign against Islamic State (Daesh) in Iraq – see also my...
View ArticleCities and War
This week the Guardian launched a new series on Cities and War: War is urbanising. No longer fought on beaches or battlefields, conflict has come to the doors of millions living in densely populated...
View ArticleMass Murder in Slow Motion (II): Siege Economies
This is the second in a series of posts on East Ghouta (Damascus); the first, providing essential background, is here. The logic of the siege warfare pursued by Syria and its allies has been to cordon...
View ArticleMass Murder in Slow Motion (III): Military and paramilitary violence
This is the third in a series of posts on siege warfare and East Ghouta (Damascus); the first is here and the second here. It’s also an extension to my post on the chemical weapons attacks on Douma...
View ArticleDrones and Shadow Wars
I ended my lecture at the Drone Imaginaries conference in Odense this week by arguing that the image of the drone’s all-seeing ‘eye in the sky’ had eclipsed multiple other modalities of later modern...
View ArticleFootprints of War
When I was working on my essay on ‘The natures of war’ (DOWNLOADS tab), I was surprised at how few sustained discussions of ‘nature’ as a medium through which military violence is conducted – though...
View ArticleCounterinsurgency and the counterrevolution
Another interesting interview tied to a book, this time between Jeremy Scahill and Bernard Harcourt, over at The Intercept. A central argument of Bernard’s book, The Counterrevolution: how our...
View ArticleSelling War
When there were endless real bookshops for me to haunt, I lost count of the number of times I’d take a book from the shelf, seduced by its lead title, only to put it back once I saw what came …...
View ArticleCombat Obscura
A new documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Combat Obscura, is available on iTunes. From The Daily Beast: The new Afghanistan war documentary Combat Obscura doesn’t introduce itself, explain itself,...
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Under Afghan Skies (2)
Here is the second installment of my essay on an airstrike on three vehicles in Uruzgan, Afghanistan on 21 February 2010 that has become one of the central examples in critical discussions of remote...
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Under Afghan Skies (3)
Here is the third installment of my essay on an airstrike on three vehicles in Uruzgan, Afghanistan on 21 February 2010 that has become one of the central examples in critical discussions of remote...
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