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But who's flying the plane? Integrating UAVs into the Canadian and Danish armed forces / Schaub, Gary; Kristensen, Kristian Soby

Kristensen, Kristian Soby	Article
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members such as Canada and Denmark have transformed their military forces to better engage in expeditionary warfare. They are incorporating advanced technologies to find and strike targets precisely from great distances at little risk to themselves. The persistence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represents the next step in modern airpower’s long-range reconnaissance/precision strike complex and has transformed ground operations. Nonetheless, operational requirements in Afghanistan caught Canada and Denmark flat-footed. Ultimately, Canada effectively used UAVs while Denmark could not. Moreover, neither state has a UAV capability beyond small tactical systems (although each has plans to develop or join in the development of larger ones). The Canadian and Danish experiences suggest that ground forces are most likely to acquire and integrate small UAVs into their force structures and concepts of operation and that the air forces of small- and medium-sized Western countries will likely do so only in cooperation with others. It is here that the Canadian and Danish UAV paths may yet again cross.

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NATO ; Air Force ; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ; UAVs ; Afghanistan ; Canada ;
Airpower ; Denmark ; Transformation ; Innovation ; WEapons Acquisition

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Conflict specific capital: the role of weapons acquisition in civil war / Marsh, Nicholas

Marsh, Nicholas	Journal Article
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2007.

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This article presents a correspondence between the mode of weapons acquisition by armed opposition groups and the form of a civil war. The mode of arms acquisition is affected by two factors-availability and control over the acquisition process. Variations in the mode of arms acquisition correspond to three types of insurgency: led by a single and organized group, warlordism, and disorganized armed bands. This article discusses how weapons acquisition is considered in the existing literature on arms and civil conflict, and examines the definitions of arms availability. It provides new insights on the availability and control of weapons in civil conflict and provides examples from Nepal, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The article concludes with an examination of the policy implications of its findings.

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Arms Control ; Armed Groups ; WEapons Acquisition ; Civil War

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