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Drone warfare and lawfare in a post-heroic age / Marouf Hasian Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr., author.
- Series:
- Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drone aircraft--United States--Political aspects.
- Drone aircraft.
- Drone aircraft--United States--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)--United States.
- Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the past decade, the United States has rapidly deployed militarized drones in theaters of war for surveillance as well as targeted killing.The swiftness with which drones were created and put into service has outstripped the development of an associated framework for discussing them, with the result that basic conversations about these lethal.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. An Argumentation Approach to the Study of Drone Warfare and Lawfare; 2. The Genealogical Origins of Heroic Anxieties over Asymmetrical Warfare, Aerial Bombing, and the "Drone Syndrome"; 3. The George W. Bush Administration and America's Adoption of the Drones, 2001-2008; 4. Preserving One's Honor and One's Humanity: Mediascapes and Pakistani Countervisual Critiques of the Drone Wars; 5. Humanizing Drone Pilots, the Politics of Verticality, and the Public Legitimation of US Drone Policies
- 6. The Obama Administration's Immunization Rhetorics, the "Dispositional Matrix," and the BiopoliticalExpansion of the Drone Wars7. Futuristic Drone Fantasies, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and Drone Proliferation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8911-3
- OCLC:
- 933516565
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