#12146. Assembling Israeli drone warfare: Loitering surveillance and operational sustainability

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Abstract:
This article examines how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have changed practices of Israeli warfare. First, the study traces the emergence and development of the Israeli UAV programme. Second, it examines the main factors that have enabled its expansion. Third, it turns to the main implications of UAVs for the way in which the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) wages war. The article argues that the combined tactical use of UAVs employed for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) tasks has amounted to a strategic effect: UAVs have enabled the IDF to better control the battle rhythm. UAVs in the Israeli context have enhanced the IDF’s operational sustainability, since one’s own casualties have been virtually eliminated and civilian casualties have been stretched out over, rather than concentrated in, time. To capture the changing character of the UAV and to unravel the interactions among technology, warfare and broader societal forces, the article draws on actor-network theory.
Keywords:
Actor-network theory; IDF; intelligence; ISR; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); warfare

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