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Drone warfare : killing by remote control / Medea Benjamin.
Van Pelt Library UG1242.D7 B46 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Medea, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drone aircraft--United States.
- Drone aircraft.
- Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- War.
- Military policy.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States--Military policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Verso, 2013.
- Summary:
- Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing-and most secretive-fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; ten years later, it had a fleet of nearly 7,500, and the US Air Force now trains more drone "pilots" than bomber and fighter pilots combined. Drones are already a $5 billion business in the US alone. The human cost? Drone strikes have killed more than 200 children alone in Pakistan and Yemen. Codepink and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin provides the first extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who controls these unmanned planes, and what are the legal and moral implications of their use. In vivid, readable style, this book also looks at what activists, lawyers, and scientists across the globe are doing to ground these weapons. Benjamin argues that the assassinations we are carrying out from the air will come back to haunt us when others start doing the same thing-to us. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A sordid love affair with killer drones
- It's a growth market
- Here a drone, there a drone, everywhere a drone
- Pilots without a cockpit
- Remote-controlled victims
- Murder by drone : is it legal?
- Morality bites the dust
- The activists strike back
- Opposition to drones goes global
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: New York : OR Books, 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781781680773
- 1781680779
- OCLC:
- 842360510
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