Pub Date : 2022-04-29DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2022.2058994
Promise Frank Ejiofor
The Nigerian state has witnessed an upsurge in violent crime – such as kidnapping, looting and cattle rustling – especially in its northwest geopolitical zone. Referred to as ‘armed bandits’ in local parlance, loosely organised criminal gangs with strong links to Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province have compounded the war on terror in the Sahel. In this article, Promise Frank Ejiofor draws on the New Mobilities Paradigm to contend that mobility is central to comprehending the persistence of armed banditry. By understanding the problem in this way, anti-terror legislation could then aim at effectively governing not just territorial spaces but also mobilities.◼
尼日利亚目睹了暴力犯罪的激增，如绑架、抢劫和偷牛，尤其是在其西北地缘政治地区。在当地被称为“武装匪徒”的组织松散的犯罪团伙与博科圣地和伊斯兰国西非省有密切联系，加剧了萨赫勒地区的反恐战争。在这篇文章中，Promise Frank Ejiofor借鉴了新流动性范式，认为流动性是理解武装盗匪持续存在的核心。通过以这种方式理解这个问题，反恐立法就可以不仅有效地管理领土空间，还能有效地管理人员流动
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Pub Date : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2022.2058601
Amos C. Fox
For the better part of the 20th century, manoeuvre held primacy in Western military thinking. Yet, modern technological advances, in today’s period of limited war, have suffocated the conditions and components that manoeuvre requires to exist. As a result, it is dead. Amos C Fox argues that, instead of lamenting this, the defence and security studies communities should celebrate manoeuvre’s death as a liberating event and begin looking at alternative theories and ideas for the prosecution of war.◼
在20世纪的大部分时间里，机动在西方军事思想中占据了首要地位。然而，在今天的有限战争时期，现代技术的进步扼杀了机动存在所需的条件和要素。结果，它死了。阿莫斯·C·福克斯(Amos C . Fox)认为，国防和安全研究界不应为此感到悲哀，而应将演习之死视为一件解放的事件来庆祝，并开始寻找其他的理论和观点来起诉战争
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Pub Date : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2022.2041079
Aleksi Ylönen
External power competition in the Horn of Africa is intensifying. In recent years, the US and China, as well as regionally powerful states such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE and Qatar, have all deepened their involvement in the sub-region. This has opened new opportunities for state and non-state actors in the Horn to gain influence through financial and material resources by associating themselves with external powers. Somaliland is one such actor. In the current scenario, Hargeisa’s increasingly sophisticated foreign policy has enabled it to step up its quest for international recognition and development. In this article, Aleksi Ylönen discusses the increasing contestation of influence among external powers in the Horn of Africa and Somaliland’s position in this changing regional context.◼
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Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2022.2049167
K. Dear
In this article, Keith Dear argues that demographic and geographic constraints on national power are reducing in two ways. First, that automation, robotics and AI reduce states’ dependence on people to create wealth and to scale military forces to deter or fight. Second, while geography was once the only arena for international competition, today, economic, military and political contests increasingly extend to the digital metaverse. He argues that we are moving beyond the ‘geo’ in geopolitics, witnessing the digital transformation of power.◼
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Pub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2022.2055388
Mungo Melvin
Simon Mayall’s Soldier in the Sand: A Personal History of the Modern Middle East is an impressive study of the region seen through the eyes of a senior British Army officer and Arabist. Neither an autobiography nor a history – nor indeed a travelogue – it incorporates elements of all three genres. Very much a ‘sandwich cake’ book, it comprises rich layers of intricate geopolitics interspersed with fascinating personal vignettes drawn from a diverse and distinguished military life – with more than a hint of T E Lawrence (as an undergraduate, Mayall shared his interest in Crusader castles) penetrating its pages. Dropping names and places at a breathtaking pace, he provides a series of trenchant and largely justified criticisms of British foreign and defence policy since the withdrawal from East of Suez in the early 1970s. A good set of monochrome maps and photographs, together with a comprehensive glossary of Arab expressions, assist the reader.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2022.2036229
D. Depledge, Andreas Østhagen
Scotland’s geostrategic significance to the High North is being overlooked in debates about the potential impacts of ‘Scexit’, as well as wider discussions about the changing Arctic security environment. Duncan Depledge and Andreas Østhagen address this oversight by drawing attention to Scotland’s historic role in contributing to the defence of NATO’s ‘northern flank’ and analysing how this is being resurrected in response to new challenges emerging in the High North. They conclude that there are some specific challenges that policymakers should address as the independence debate continues: most importantly, the potential for a ‘gap’ to be created in the regional security architecture of the High North.◼
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2022.2042148
W. Parker
In the essay that won the 2021 Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize (Full-Time Education Category), William Parker assesses the naval military instrument and its utility short of combat in the Indo-Pacific. By analysing the conceptual basis for the Royal Navy’s Indo-Pacific tilt, he argues that operational concepts and naval doctrine must work together in areas where, currently, they are not. He concludes that ensuring the conduct of naval diplomacy as a strategic practice, which serves the habit of statecraft, is crucial in reducing the chance of competitive peace leading to violent war.◼
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Pub Date : 2022-02-23DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2022.2075634
Katharine M. Campbell
Sholto Douglas was Military Governor of the British Zone of Occupation in post-war Germany, in which post he had to sign numerous death warrants. As Katharine Campbell explains, his struggle with moral injury forms the backdrop to consideration of the Overseas Operations Act (2021) and the proposed amnesty for Troubles-related prosecutions in Northern Ireland.◼
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