Bombing to Provoke: Rockets, Missiles, and Drones as Instruments of Fear and Coercion

The LBJ School of Public Affairs
SRH 3.122

The rapid proliferation and growing sophistication of aerospace weapons—rockets, missiles, and drones—have altered the landscape of warfare. The influence of these weapons on the battlefield is felt profoundly, yet the mechanism of provocation and coercion by which these weapons alter the will of the adversary is poorly understood. In Bombing to Provoke, LBJ professor Jaganath Sankaran contends that it is not what aerospace weapons physically do but how they emotionally affect and what they prompt decision-makers in target states to do in response that matters for understanding their provocative and coercive effect.  

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