Sept. 11th FOCUS: Weaponized Commercially Available Drones w/ Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D., Texas Tech University, Modern War Institute, USMA West Point (TRP Ep. 88)
Podcast: The Republican ProfessorPublished On: Sun Sep 11 2022
Description: Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D. is a research fellow at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point* (https://mwi.usma.edu/research-fellows/kerry-chavez/) but her day job is teaching quantitative methods, International Politics, Foreign Policy, and Politics of Military Force at Texas Tech University, where she is the Projects Administrator of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Laboratory. Dr. Chavez is a quantitative methods scholar of International Security and Conflict, so she brings a her own collected data to the study of drones and violent non-state actors. She defines these terms for us, and we talk a little bit about how she collected those data. Kerry is a co-author of a recent War on the Rocks article (with Ori Swed, former Israeli SF) called "Weak States and Loose Arms: Lessons and Warnings from Afghanistan to Ukraine" published July 12, 2022, which is the subject of much or our discussion here. Here's a link to that article, here : https://warontherocks.com/2022/07/weak-states-and-loose-arms-lessons-and-warnings-from-libya-to-ukraine/ Dr. Chavez did some of her graduate work at St. Andrews University in Scotland, which I learned during this interview is not called "Street Andrews", like on a mailing address. And actually, I guess that makes sense. Kerry has a rigorous, broad, classical education in her undergrad, as a graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University, and I think we talked about that enough to where Torrey now owes me 10% of any future revenue from their program, and Kerry should get 10%, too. Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D., is a delightful person, has a charming and ironically disarming sense of humor, and our fun conversation (strange that this topic could be fun--I guess it was the person, not the topic per se), is wide-ranging and timely. The Republican Professor is a pro-remembering-never-to-forget, pro-delightful-professors, pro-International-security-study-done-right, pro-having-fun-while-doing-serious-things, pro-someones-got-to-do-the-quant-stuff, pro-catching-up-with-old-friends podcast. Therefore, welcome my good friend Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D., of Texas Tech and West Point. Make sure you never forget to subscribe. Share this with a friend. Level up on security. TRP Podcast has recently been ranked last in the world by Unimportant Things magazine, late summer edition. Warmly, Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/ YouTube channel: The Republican Professor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRepublicanProfessor Twitter: @RepublicanProf Instagram: @the_republican_professor *A prep school for the Naval Academy.
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