Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of
AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. The History of Surrogate Warfare 2.
The Context of Neotrinitarian War 3. Conceptualizing Surrogate
Warfare 4. Externalizing the Burden of War to the Machine 5.
Patron-Surrogate Relations and the Problem of Control and Autonomy
6. Toward a Just Surrogate War 7. Iran’s Externalization of
Strategic Defense through Surrogate WarfareConclusion Bibliography
IndexAbout the Authors
"In Surrogate Warfare, Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli offer a welcome discussion of the phenomenon of nation states farming out military and security responsibilities to ‘surrogates.'"
Andreas Krieg is an assistant professor at the School of Security
Studies at King's College, London and co-founder of both the Near
East Centre for Security and Strategy and the Private Military and
Security Research Group at King's College.
Jean-Marc Rickli is head of global risk and resilience at the
Geneva Centre for Security Policy and a research fellow at King's
College, London.
In Surrogate Warfare, Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli offer a
welcome discussion of the phenomenon of nation states farming out
military and security responsibilities to ‘surrogates.'
*Michigan War Studies Review*
This work is ... a stimulating essay, offering a real debate on
what war is today, especially around the ethical and legal issues
linked to technological revolutions, in progress and to come.
Surrogate Warfare offers fresh perspectives about contemporary
warfare with analysis ontechnology, ethics, and the current
geostrategic environment.
*Terrorism and Political Violence*
At a time when increasing levels of “security force assistance” and
“partner capacity building” are defining Western engagement with
states around the globe, this book is an important reminder of the
opportunities and threats posed by outsourcing war to others.
*Political Science Quarterly*
While Surrogate Warfare offers a wealth of history, theory, and
novel thought about the nature of surrogates and their evolving
technological dimensions in war, it is the near- and long-term
engagement with near-peer competitors in the wake of the
coronavirus that serves as a catalyst to recommend this book to the
joint force.
*Joint Forces Quarterly*
[Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli] argue for an expanded concept
of surrogate war that includes forms of technological surrogacy
such as cyber warfare and autonomous weapons. War, they argue, has
moved ‘into the cyber and media domains’.
*London Review of Books*
This task is left to research further into contemporary wars, for
which Surrogate Warfare provides a highly relevant and useful
conceptual lens by exploring the causes, dynamics and consequences
of the outsourcing of the costs of war to human or technological
substitutes as a key dynamic of wars in the twenty-first
century.
*International Affairs*
This is a conceptually innovative and important account of how wars
involving state and non-state actor adversaries are increasingly
being waged by the outsourcing of their strategic, operational and
tactical responsibilities of warfare to human and technological
surrogates, as explained in the book’s back cover, “to minimize the
costs of war.”
*Perspectives on Terrorism*
The scholarly work of Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli offers
perspective through historical examples that cover strategic,
operational, and tactical levels of warfare to show how surrogates
have been utilized as a part of warfare throughout history.
*H-Net*
A timely and essential contribution to today's national discussion
about the impact of social media, Artificial Intelligence, and how
related technologies are acerbating the insidious polarization and
nefarious manipulation of the American public, Subversion: The
Strategic Weaponization of Narratives is an impressively
informative, usefully organized, and thoroughly 'reader friendly'
in presentation.
*Midwest Book Review*
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