Last Updated On: May 24 2021 12:25 Gmt+3
Turkey downed at least one homemade “suicide” drone targeting its large airbase in Diyarbakır in the country’s southeast on the night of May 19. The attack, plausibly claimed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is the latest example of how non-state actors can develop and deploy such weapons.
According to the Turkish press, Turkish forces also foiled two other attacks on May 21. One attack consisted of three similar explosive-laden drones, described as “model planes”, targeting a base in the southeastern Batman province. The other attack targeted Turkish infantry in the Şırnak province, which borders both Iraq and Syria.
1. GEN David H. Berger, USMC,
Force Design 2030 (Washington DC: March 2020).
2. GEN David H. Berger, USMC,
The 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps Commandant’s Planning Guidance (Washington, DC: 16 July 2019).
3. Department of the Navy,
Advantage at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power (Washington, DC: December 2020).
4. Megan Eckstein, “Marines Testing Regiment at Heart of Emerging Island-Hopping Future,”
USNI News, 4 June 2020.
5. See, for example: Dakota Wood, “The Marines: To Boldly Go Where the Corps Has Gone Before,”
The Washington Times, 24 June 2020; Frank G. Hoffman, “Still First to Fight?: Shaping the 21st Century Marine Corps,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2020; Mark Cancian, “The Marine Corps’ Radical Shift toward China,” Center for Strategic International Studies, 25 March 2020; and William S. Lind, “The View from Olympus: Did the Marine Corps Just Commit Suicide?”
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Empire States of Mind
Although this relatively short book is closer to an extended, episodic essay than to the comprehensive history of the British empire implied by the title, it is an excellent example of the author’s style. Black takes a broad view of his subject and displays both the breadth of his interests and the fearlessness of his judgments. Taking aim at contemporary critics of the Empire, including both postcolonial nationalists and Western academics who cheer them on, his overall theme is that understanding empire requires context.
In discussing case studies from India to Ireland, Black presents himself as the voice of reason, pushing back against the mendacity those whom he accuses of overplaying their criticism of British imperialism in pursuit of their own intellectual or national political agendas.