Peter Maurer, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross,sees no distinction between how the West and other belligerents wage war. In discussion with Professor Peter Roberts, Dr Maurer evinces a grimmer reality in which the cumulative effects of climate change, poverty and poor governance combine withthe‘democratisation’ of access to sophisticated weapons, which arenow held by a multitude of actors. The result is a modern battlefield torn asunder by precision weapons, one which more resembles Armageddon thanideas ofthe beautiful ’surgical’use of forcethat areoftenrehashed by military and political leaders. Sobering stuff.
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