Lawfare Daily: ‘The Warhead’ with Jeffery Stern
5/20/202640 min
Loren Voss, Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with Jeffrey Stern to discuss his new book "The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare."
They talk about the development of the Paveway bomb and the importance of precision weapons to modern warfare. Stern grapples with their complicated effects on warfare, both adding precision to warfare that can reduce civilian casualties but also distancing the human element from killing, allowing force to be used more frequently. They discuss the impact of limited war on implementation of the War Powers Resolution and congressional oversight, and the necessity of understanding that weapons are just one part of a complicated kill chain.
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First 90 secondsEric Columbus0:00
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Jeffrey Stern· Guest1:03
[upbeat music] [upbeat music] So we're sort of, like, barreling towards this, towards this situation where the entire system is saying strike, and the one person who may be on the loop or whatever, whatever that person's engagement actually is, there's not that much time to be like, "Now, wait a minute. Where is this intelligence coming from?"