0
*
0
*
1450
2025
book-filter
Edition cover

Drone Warfare

  • Medea Benjamin

0

0 ratings

Weeks after the 2002 American invasion of Afghanistan, Medea Benjamin visited that country. There, on the ground, talking with victims of the strikes, she learned the reality behind the "precision bombs" on which U.S. forces were becoming increasingly reliant. Now, with the use of drones escalating at a meteoric pace, Benjamin has written this book as a call to action: "It is meant to wake a sleeping public," she writes, "lulled into thinking that drones are good, that targeted killings are making us safer." Drone Warfare is a comprehensive look at the growing menace of robotic warfare, with an extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who "pilots" these unmanned planes, who are the victims and what are the legal and moral implications. In vivid, readable style, the book also looks at what activists, lawyers and scientists are doing to ground the drones, and ways to move forward. In reality, writes Benjamin, the assassinations we are carrying out via drones will come back to haunt us when others start doing the same thing-to us.

Genres

  • Moral and ethical aspects
  • Government policy
  • Military applications
  • Drone aircraft
  • Robotics
  • War
  • Military policy
  • Military policy of the United States"
  • Air warfare
  • Military ethics
  • Political science
  • Drones
  • Aspect moral
  • Politique gouvernementale
  • Guerre
Already read

0

people already read

Currently reading

0

people are currently reading

Want to read

3

people want to read

About the author

  • Medea Benjamin

    born 10 Sep 1952

    0

    0 ratings · 20 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Anagrama

    2014

  • Edition cover

    Blackstone Audio, Inc.

    Dec 01, 2012

  • Edition cover

    OR Books

    2012

  • Edition cover

    Fully rev. and updated.

    Verso

    2013