Barnett on Migration of Security Technology from Warzones to Home
Thomas Barnett has an interesting post at Battleland playing off Thom Shanker's piece in the Times today regarding biometrics and security in Afghanistan. Barnett's point: such measures are more likely to be introduced over time at home if they are first validated in settings such as Afghanistan where for a host of obvious reasons no one is going to complain about them - the idea, I take it, i
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Thomas Barnett has an interesting post at Battleland playing off Thom Shanker's piece in the Times today regarding biometrics and security in Afghanistan. Barnett's point: such measures are more likely to be introduced over time at home if they are first validated in settings such as Afghanistan where for a host of obvious reasons no one is going to complain about them - the idea, I take it, is that we acclimate to them, come to appreciate their utiltity, and are simply less shocked and more interested when they are later used at home. Very interesting observation.
Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.
