Friday, March 27th – 1:30PM
Mankind’s constant search for security has led to a constant search for supremacy, more often than not resulting in the search for military supremacy among worrisome neighbors. This mindset is as applicable to the first bow and arrow as it is to the now first generation of full-combat unmanned aerial vehicles; UAV’s or more colloquially, “drones”. This panel will discuss what the military, diplomatic, legal, and moral ramifications are for the use of drones in modern warfare. Touching on topics like the targeted killing of individuals by countries, surveillance both abroad and at home, and the legality of everything in between, this discussion promises to address real-world security considerations alongside the ethical dilemmas they often create.
Panel Chair
Dr. Jeffrey Bale, Associate Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)
Dr. Jeffrey M. Bale is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). He also regularly teaches specialized courses on an adjunct basis at the Naval Postgraduate School. He obtained his BA in Middle Eastern and Islamic history at the University of Michigan, his MA in social movements and political sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, and his PhD in contemporary European history at Berkeley. He previously taught at Berkeley, Columbia University, and the University of California at Irvine, and was the recipient of postdoctoral fellowships from the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia, the Office of Scholarly Programs at the Library of Congress, and the Center for German and European Studies at Berkeley.
Dr. Bale has been studying violence-prone political and religious extremists for nearly three decades – long before it suddenly became “fashionable” in the wake of the tragic 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States – and has published numerous scholarly articles on terrorism, CBRN use by terrorists and states, right-wing extremism, Islamism, and covert political operations. He has just finished co-editing (with Bassam Tibi) a special issue of the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions on Islamism, is in the final process of updating a two-part manuscript on underground neo-fascist networks in Cold War Europe and the terrorist “strategy of tension” in Italy, and is preparing three new scholarly monographs: one on the diverse array of Islamist networks currently operating in western Europe (The “Enemy Within”), another on the burgeoning “conspiracy theory” literature related to 9/11 and other major recent terrorist attacks (Imagined Terrorist Plots), and still another on the growing links between dissident left- and right-wing radicals in the West and Islamist groups (Where the Extremes Touch). He reads numerous foreign languages, has carried out specialized archival research (in the United States as well as in several European countries), has personally interviewed extremists from several political and religious milieus, and has accumulated an extensive collection of primary source materials related to both extremist and terrorist groups and covert politics). His responsibilities at MonTREP include preparing research reports on various aspects of terrorist ideologies, motivations, and operational techniques.
Dr. Bale has recently published several book chapters and articles in Patterns of Prejudice, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Democracy and Security, as well as a number of in-depth research reports for components of the U.S. government. He is currently a special consultant to the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (Taylor and Francis), and often serves as a consultant for government agencies and private organizations on matters related to terrorism and ideological extremism.
Panelists
James Walsh, Professor at University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Dr. Walsh is a professor of the department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to that, he was the associate chair of the same program for four years. He received his Ph.D. in international relations from American University in 1996. Dr. Walsh has written extensively on the issue of drones usage in the fight against global terrorism. He recently published a book, “Effectiveness of Drone Strikes in Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism Campaigns” for the Strategic Studies Institute at the Army War College. He has also published countless journal articles which talk about counterinsurgency, counter-terrorism, and the ethical ramifications of modern warfighting.
Amos Guiora, Professor at Utah University, College of Law
Amos Guiora is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Global Justice at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. Guiora who teaches Criminal Procedure, International Law, Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism and Religion and Terrorism incorporates innovative scenario-based instruction to address national and international security issues and dilemmas. Guiora was a Member of the American Bar Association’s Law and National Security Advisory Committee from 2010-2014. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Oxford, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict; a Research Fellow at the International Institute on Counter-Terrorism, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzylia, Israel; and a Corresponding Member, The Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, University of Utrecht School of Law. Professor Guiora has published extensively both in the U.S. and Europe on issues related to national security, limits of interrogation, religion and terrorism, and the limits of power, multiculturalism and human rights. He is the author of Legitimate Target: A Criteria Based Approach to Targeted Killing; Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security (first and second editions); Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism (first and second editions); Fundamentals of Counterterrorism; Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation; Homeland Security: What is it and Where is it Going; Tolerating Intolerance: The Price of Protecting Extremism and Geopolitics and Security: Sovereignty, Intervention and the Law.
Emanuel Moura, Monterey Drone
Emanuel Moura moved to Monterey in 2014, where he is currently finishing his B.S. degree in Marketing and Business Administration. While going to school at CSUMB, Emanuel has been working at Monterey Drone as an intern, where he administrates business development projects and provides marketing advice. Since February, he has been working with Monterey Drone, and plans to continue working after graduating.
Michael Freeman, Associate Professor at Naval Postgraduate School
Michael Freeman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. His research interests focus on terrorism, international security, and U.S. foreign policy. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2001 and is the author of Freedom or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror (Praeger, 2003), the co-editor of Gangs and Guerrillas: Ideas from Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency, the editor of Financing Terrorism: Case Studies (Ashgate 2012), as well as the author of several journal articles and book chapters on terrorism, emergency powers, and terrorist financing. He is the executive editor of the journal, Combating Terrorism Exchange, and the creative designer of five online, “serious” games on terrorism and counterterrorism: Balance of Terror, Asymmetric Warfare, Contagion, Follow the Money, and SpecOps. In 2014, he was the recipient of NPS’s highest teaching honor, the Hamming Award. Before joining NPS in 2005, he was a lecturer at the University of Chicago, a post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth, and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Captain Timothy Doorey, Lecturer for Center for Civil-Military Relations at NPS
Captain Timothy (Tim) Doorey, USN (Ret.) is a lecturer for Center for Civil-Military Relations. In that capacity he travels extensively around the world providing executive education programs to allies and partners on counter-terrorism, anti-piracy, maritime security, cyber threats and interagency efforts against organized crime. Prior to joining CCMR, he served for 28 years in naval intelligence in various tactical, operational and national-level assignments. His last assignment on active duty was as the Naval Postgraduate School’s Senior Intelligence Officer, where he developed and taught graduate-level intelligence courses and mentored mid-career U.S. and allied officers from all services. Prior to coming to NPS, he was assigned to the Pentagon’s Joint Staff Intelligence Directorate.
During his Navy career, Captain Doorey provided intelligence support for U.S. and coalition military operations in Beirut, Lebanon (1982-1984), Grenada (1983), El Salvador and Panama (1987-1989) and Iraq and Afghanistan during the first Gulf War and following 9/11. From 1995 to 1998, he was Special Assistant to NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command. His sea duty assignments included, Senior Intelligence Officer on the aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70); Senior Air Wing Intelligence Officer for Carrier Air Wing Seven (CVW-7) onboard the aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73) during its maiden deployment and in support of the United Nation’s peacekeepers in Bosnia (UNPROFOR) and OPERATION SOUTHERN WATCH over Iraq; and as the Squadron Intelligence Officer with Attack Squadron 176 onboard the USS Independence (CV-62).
CAPT Doorey was awarded Masters’ degrees in National Security Affairs and Strategic Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School (1986) and the Naval War College (2002). He was also the Navy’s Federal Executive Fellow to Harvard University’s John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies in 1998-1999.
