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Geo-politics and aerospace power / Soman, SS

Soman, SS	Article
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Geopolitics ; Intelligence ; Surveillance ; Aerospace Power ; Reconnaissance ; ISR ;
HADR ; RMAs ; PGMs ; Disater Relief

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Precision Strike : A Brief Development History of PGMs / Jenzen-Jones, N R; Shanley, Jack

Jenzen-Jones, N R	Journal Article
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This article examines the development of precision guided munitions (PGMs) from the earliest proto-PGMs of the late 18th century to the miniaturised, semi-autonomous forms in present service. N R Jenzen-Jones and Jack Shanley trace the history of these revolutionary weapons and examine how their battlefield roles and real-world use cases have evolved over time.

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Precision Strike ; PGMs

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Pro-government militias and the repertoires of illicit state violence / Ahram, Ariel I

Ahram, Ariel I	Article
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Most studies of pro-government militias (PGMs) take a narrowly functionalist approach. This article sees PGMs as the product of broader processes of state formation and regime dynamics that generate distinctive repertoires of violence. The article uses a cross-national dataset to shows that low state capacity is singularly correlated with the appearance and activity of all forms of PGMs. Once militias are active, they tend to endure even after initial conditions change, suggesting a strong measure of path dependence in how states PGMs evolve. Democracy curbs the activity of semi-official PGMs but not informal ones. Different authoritarian regime sub-types have varying propensities for militia activity. These findings have major implications for efforts to address state frailty.

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PGMs ; Pro-Government Militias ; Ilicit State Violence

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