Seeing Things Differently: Nang , Tura , Zolm , and Other Cultural Factors in Taliban Attitudes to Drones
Seeing Things Differently: Nang , Tura , Zolm , and Other Cultural Factors in Taliban Attitudes to Drones
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以不同的方式看待事物：Nang、Tura、Zolm 和塔利班对无人机态度中的其他文化因素
DOI：
10.1080/17449057.2018.1527086
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发表时间：
2018
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0.8
通讯作者：
Wyatt C
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作者：
Wyatt C
本文讨论了塔利班如何看待无人机的问题。关于这个问题的西方文献主要是反战、反无人机或批评缺乏透明度，这对塔利班来说意义不大。这里的讨论集中在他们的文献上，通过普什图人如何理解战争和战斗中的勇敢、普什图人如何创造元叙事来讨论美国与盟军使用武力之间的关系以及如何将其与对合法性的更广泛理解联系起来的框架进行探索。这具有重要的政策意义，因为无人机在西方作为战争图腾武器的首要地位对塔利班来说并不存在。他们对无人机的厌恶是不可分割的和文化上的束缚，而不是特定于与其他空中和间接射击手段不同的仪器。
This article addresses the question of what the Taliban think about drones. Western literature on this question is predominately anti-war, anti-drone, or critical of the lack of transparency, which means little to the Taliban. The discussion here focuses on their literature, exploring it through the frames of how Pashtuns understand war and bravery in combat, how Pashtuns have created meta narratives to discuss the relationship between US and allied use of force and how that connects to a wider understanding of the legitimacy. This has important policy implications because the primacy that the drone has in the West as a totemic weapon of war does not exist for the Taliban. Their dislike of drones is indivisibly and culturally bound, not specific to the instrument as distinct from other means of aerial and indirect fire.