Strike Cell

Major Brennan Deveraux a U.S. Army strategist serving as a national security researcher at the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, delivers his lecture, "Strike Cell: Exterminating ISIS during Operation Inherent Resolve".The lecture will explore Major Deveraux’s 2016 deployment to Iraq as the theater-level rocket artillery liaison in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The presentation covers critical themes of, employing emerging technologies, airspace deconfliction on a modern battlefield, collateral damage in urban warfare, the dehumanization of the enemy, and the impact of “virtual warfare” on service members and will conclude looking to the future and a tie-in to modern conflicts from the transparent battlefield to the controversial components of drone strikes.Major Brennan Deveraux has three defense-related master’s degrees and focuses his research on military adaptation, emerging-technology management, and the characteristics of future warfare. Deveraux is the author of numerous books; his most recent book is the war memoir Exterminating ISIS: Behind the Curtain of a Technological War.