Special Report

War Issue

War, as Clausewitz so memorably put it, is the continuation of politics by other means. Strikingly, the United States under its Nobel Peace Prize-winning president has been pursuing war itself by other means over the last few years, a campaign that has blurred the lines of legality and lethality, technology and weaponry, as it has ...

By FP Staff

February 27, 2012, 2:09 AM

War, as Clausewitz so memorably put it, is the continuation of politics by other means. Strikingly, the United States under its Nobel Peace Prize-winning president has been pursuing war itself by other means over the last few years, a campaign that has blurred the lines of legality and lethality, technology and weaponry, as it has spread from Afghanistan to an ever-widening swath of the planet. Which is why we’ve devoted this, our third annual War Issue, to the question of Barack Obama’s Secret Wars. From drones that rain death down on Pakistan’s tribal areas to the collateral damage of a “war on terror” that’s still not over in the Horn of Africa, we may all come to look back on the Obama years as a definitive chapter in the spread of this new way of war.

My Drone War
By Pir Zubair Shah
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Drones
By Micah Zenko
The Evolution of Drone Warfare
Obama’s Secret Wars
The Obama Doctrine
By David Rohde
Collateral Damage
By Paul Salopek
The FP Survey: The Future of War
Think Again: Cyberwar
By Thomas Rid
Cyberwar Is Already Upon Us
By John Arquilla
The Body Counter
By Tina Rosenberg
Mad Libs: War Edition

War, as Clausewitz so memorably put it, is the continuation of politics by other means. Strikingly, the United States under its Nobel Peace Prize-winning president has been pursuing war itself by other means over the last few years, a campaign that has blurred the lines of legality and lethality, technology and weaponry, as it has spread from Afghanistan to an ever-widening swath of the planet. Which is why we’ve devoted this, our third annual War Issue, to the question of Barack Obama’s Secret Wars. From drones that rain death down on Pakistan’s tribal areas to the collateral damage of a “war on terror” that’s still not over in the Horn of Africa, we may all come to look back on the Obama years as a definitive chapter in the spread of this new way of war.

My Drone War
By Pir Zubair Shah
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Drones
By Micah Zenko
The Evolution of Drone Warfare
Obama’s Secret Wars
The Obama Doctrine
By David Rohde
Collateral Damage
By Paul Salopek
The FP Survey: The Future of War
Think Again: Cyberwar
By Thomas Rid
Cyberwar Is Already Upon Us
By John Arquilla
The Body Counter
By Tina Rosenberg
Mad Libs: War Edition

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