Strategic ignorance and the legitimation of remote warfare: The Hawija bombardments
Strategic ignorance and the legitimation of remote warfare: The Hawija bombardments
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战略无知与远程战争的合法性：哈维贾轰炸
作者：
L. Gould;N. Stel
我们必须如何理解和概念化远程战争的原理和影响？本文通过分析荷兰官员如何参与2015年在伊拉克Hawija的伊斯兰国武器工厂的轰炸，为远程战争本体论的学术研究做出了贡献。委员会注意到，荷兰官员关于Hawija的叙述的主要特点是，他们各种各样地声称不知道平民伤亡情况。官方的说法从否认转向保密，再到战略上的无知。从关键安全研究领域的保密工作与战略“不知道”的无知研究工作的桥梁，我们提出了一个新的福柯的概念“政权的真相”。为证明向远程战争转变的合理性而出现的真相制度----它是无风险的、精确的和关心平民的----不仅依赖于保密和否认，而且依赖于对伤亡的假装和强加的无知。否认可以被证明是错误的，保密也有截止日期，而无知则更难以捉摸，更无限期，因此在政治上有不同的方便。故意的不知道不仅推迟了调查和问责，而且从根本上和无限期地阻碍了它，从而为未来的远程战争维持了真相的制度。
How must we understand and conceptualize the rationales and repercussions of remote warfare? This article contributes to scholarship on the ontology of remote war by analysing how Dutch officials engage with responsibility for the bombardment of an Islamic State weapons factory in Hawija, Iraq in 2015 under Operation Inherent Resolve. It observes that the main feature of Dutch officials’ accounts of Hawija is their diverse claims to not knowing about civilian casualties. Official narratives shifted from denial to secrecy to strategic ignorance. Bridging work on secrecy from the field of critical security studies with work on strategic ‘unknowing’ from ignorance studies, we propose a new take on the Foucauldian notion of ‘regimes of truth’. The regimes of truth that emerge to justify shifts to remote warfare – that it is riskless, precise and caring for civilian others – rely not merely on secrecy and denial but on feigned and imposed ignorance about casualties. Whereas denial can be disproven and secrecy has an expiration date, ignorance is more elusive and open-ended and hence politically convenient in different ways. Deliberate unknowing does not just postpone investigation and accountability but fundamentally and indefinitely obstructs it and thus sustains the regimes of truth for future remote wars.
破坏和可否认的干预主义：解释秘密行动和特种部队在当代英国政策中的吸引力
影响因子：
1.6
作者：
Cormac R
通讯作者：
Cormac R
环境问责：欧洲的情报服务和国家保密的衰落
影响因子：
4.2
作者：
Aldrich R
通讯作者：
Aldrich R
灰色是新的黑色：秘密行动和难以置信的推诿
影响因子：
4.5
作者：
Cormac R
通讯作者：
Cormac R