Remote warfare: the chemical danger
PAUL ROGERS 7 January 2016
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-rogers/remote-warfare-chemical-danger
Much of this increase is focused on “remote warfare”, using special forces and armed drones. These forms of combat – as chronicled and analysed by the London-based Remote Control Project – are themselves continually adapting. Armed #drones, for example, are now able to do more than their commonly understood task of firing lethal ordnance such as Hellfire missiles.
A new report from the project by Michael Crowley – Tear Gassing by Remote Control: the development and promotion of remotely operated means of delivering or dispersing riot control agents – is one of the first to identify the way that drones are being integrated with so-called “riot-control agents” in ways that would permit a wide range of uses, from policing actions to military use.