what is the use of UAVS And PMCS in areas of conflicts
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For PMC'S-The increased capacity of the global media to inflame and influence popular concerns regarding “casualty sensitivity” or the “body bag syndrome” – either in support of or opposition to foreign intervention – has also been a subject of broad concern among the global strategic community. This has led to “force deployment” in actual conflict situations: A difficult task for the policy makers. States, thus, seem to accept a prominent role for private business interests in the regulation of violence. This, in turn, amounts to a process of “commodification” of security. Employment of such Private Military Corporations (PMCs) in global conflict situations seemed to have become a well established practice since the 1990s. The rising menace of various non-state oriented security threats taking centre stage in the security discourse has also increased the importance of the PMCs. Privatisation of security has been advocated as a better approach to deal with such new threat scenarios and conflicts.
For UAV's-The Political Effects of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) on Conflict and Cooperation Within and Between States project has used comparative case studies of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen to explore how the use of UAVs has shaped the propensities for intra- and inter-state conflict. In particular, the project examined whether the use of drones has had any impact on the possibilities for achieving a negotiated settlement of conflicts in the three countries considered.
The project generated a number of key findings, including:
The use of UAVs does not have a significant impact on either the initiation or the failure of intra-state peace processes;
The covert nature of the US UAV campaign in Pakistan has aggravated state-society distrust and undermined the credibility of elected civilian governments;
UAV strikes kill more civilians than combatants in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and contribute to economic hardship, disruption of daily life, and psychological stress;
The covert nature of UAV campaigns precludes any state compensation for collateral damage, destruction of property, and loss of livelihood, thereby aiding militant recruitment;
The US UAV campaign in Pakistan has increased anti-US sentiment in the general public in tribal and settled areas. UAV attacks add substantially to the misery of the people already suffering at the hands of militant violence and Pakistan military bombardments in FATA. The people of Waziristan have an especially negative view of US-Pakistan cooperation over UAV attacks;
The use of UAVs does not have any direct impact on inter-state relations;
There is no evidence to suggest that UAV strikes in Yemen increase terrorist recruitment, support, or attacks; and
Open source data has been misinterpreted, leading to miscalculations of the number of attacks, collateral damage, and casualties.
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