No Neat Battlefields
Western Way of War · The Royal United Services Institute
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Show Notes
Peter Maurer, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, sees no distinction between how the West and other belligerents wage war. In discussion with Professor Peter Roberts, Dr Maurer evinces a grimmer reality in which the cumulative effects of climate change, poverty and poor governance combine with the 'democratisation' of access to sophisticated weapons, which are now held by a multitude of actors. The result is a modern battlefield torn asunder by precision weapons, one which more resembles Armageddon than ideas of the beautiful 'surgical' use of force that are often rehashed by military and political leaders. Sobering stuff.