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Rethinking Remote Warfare. (2026). In J. Patton Rogers & J. W. Hutto (Eds.), Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98517-1

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🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, and to this episode of Weekend Book Review.

There are books that inform us, and then there are books that quietly rearrange the furniture of our mind. 📚 This one does something even more unsettling. It asks us to look at war not where it explodes, but where it disappears. Not only on the battlefield, but on the screen, in the algorithm, in the sterile language of efficiency, distance, and control.

Today, I’m speaking about Rethinking Remote Warfare: AI, Drones, and Future War, published in hardback on 25 January 2026 by Palgrave Macmillan Cham. 🚁🤖🌍 It is edited by James Patton Rogers and James Wesley Hutto, and together they have assembled a volume that feels urgent in the truest sense of the word. Not loud. Not alarmist. Urgent because it understands that the future often arrives disguised as procedure.

James Patton Rogers, who serves as Executive Director of the Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University, has long worked at the intersection of emerging technology and security policy. James Wesley Hutto, Associate Professor of Military Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, brings a deep grounding in military thought and strategic affairs. 🧠 Together, they do not simply edit a collection. They curate a confrontation, between what technology promises and what power tends to do with those promises.

And what emerges from this book is not just a story about drones, AI, or next-generation weapons. It is a story about distance. About what happens when violence becomes easier to administer and harder to see. About how the battlefield expands even as the human being seems to vanish from the frame. From the Global War on Terror to the Russia-Ukraine war, from Yemen to Somalia to Ukraine, this collection traces how remote warfare has moved from tactical innovation to something closer to a permanent condition of modern conflict. ⚖️📡

What struck me most is that this is not merely a book about machines. It is a book about moral weather. About legality under pressure. About civilians rendered less visible by the cold glow of precision. About how war, once made remote, does not necessarily become restrained. Sometimes it becomes easier to repeat.

So in today’s review, I want to sit with this book carefully, and ask what it is really telling us about our century, our politics, and our appetite for clean narratives about dirty realities. ☕📖

My thanks to the editors, James Patton Rogers and James Wesley Hutto, and to Palgrave Macmillan Cham for bringing this important volume into the world. 🙏

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So let me begin here: when war becomes distant, efficient, and almost invisible, what exactly is it that we stop seeing first, the enemy, the civilian, or ourselves? ❓