{"title":"Tactical Myths and Perceptions of Reality","authors":"Paul Lushenko, S. Kreps","doi":"10.1080/09636412.2023.2225783","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"the United States has built unmanned systems that focus on decreasing political cost and privileging control, precision, and persistence over survivability, mass, and economic cost. But these are all human choices—they are not immutable or even unique characteristics of drones (or even of the narrow segment of drones on which the authors focus). So how would I answer the authors’ opening question: “Do emerging and disruptive technologies yield an offensive advantage?” I would say the puzzle is not in a technological assessment of a few weapons’ capabilities in a snapshot of time, but instead in the complicated interaction of technologies, tactics, and human choices that ultimately determine the winners and losers of war. And for this more complicated puzzle, I would argue that the article, while factually correct, is unscorable at 12.","PeriodicalId":47478,"journal":{"name":"Security Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"574 - 581"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Security Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2225783","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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the United States has built unmanned systems that focus on decreasing political cost and privileging control, precision, and persistence over survivability, mass, and economic cost. But these are all human choices—they are not immutable or even unique characteristics of drones (or even of the narrow segment of drones on which the authors focus). So how would I answer the authors’ opening question: “Do emerging and disruptive technologies yield an offensive advantage?” I would say the puzzle is not in a technological assessment of a few weapons’ capabilities in a snapshot of time, but instead in the complicated interaction of technologies, tactics, and human choices that ultimately determine the winners and losers of war. And for this more complicated puzzle, I would argue that the article, while factually correct, is unscorable at 12.
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Security Studies publishes innovative scholarly manuscripts that make a significant contribution – whether theoretical, empirical, or both – to our understanding of international security. Studies that do not emphasize the causes and consequences of war or the sources and conditions of peace fall outside the journal’s domain. Security Studies features articles that develop, test, and debate theories of international security – that is, articles that address an important research question, display innovation in research, contribute in a novel way to a body of knowledge, and (as appropriate) demonstrate theoretical development with state-of-the art use of appropriate methodological tools. While we encourage authors to discuss the policy implications of their work, articles that are primarily policy-oriented do not fit the journal’s mission. The journal publishes articles that challenge the conventional wisdom in the area of international security studies. Security Studies includes a wide range of topics ranging from nuclear proliferation and deterrence, civil-military relations, strategic culture, ethnic conflicts and their resolution, epidemics and national security, democracy and foreign-policy decision making, developments in qualitative and multi-method research, and the future of security studies.
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