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Podcast: Middle East Dossier
Episode: [Boots Off the Ground: Security in Transition in the Middle East and Beyond] Episode 15: Surrogate Warfare -The Transformation of War in the 21st Century
Description: In this episode, Dr Andreas Krieg illustrates how private security companies are a response to an emerging global phenomenon: surrogate warfare. Military surrogacy involves not only human stand-in’s such as proxies, local militias and private contractors; but also with machine or technological surrogates as such drones, AI, and cyber-tech.
This podcast series is presented by Dr Alessandro Arduino, Principal Research Fellow and Dr Ameem Lutfi, Research Fellow, at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.