Outsourced War

Since 2014 I’ve been looking at what contracting data can tell us about military operations. My first piece of work on this was a report commissioned by the Remote Control Project, a proof-of-concept example of data-mining about the activities of the US Special Operations Command. It led to a more ambitious series of investigations with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, culminating in the revelation of a $500 million propaganda project in Iraq run by a British PR agency.

My further exploration of this theme, entitled War Taxonomy: An Encyclopaedia of Conditions for Lethal Force, was presented at The Glass Room, London in 2017.

I have a new publication on this topic, in collaboration with Edmund Clark, coming in 2025.