Sudden justice : America's secret drone wars /

"Sudden Justice explores the secretive history of the United States' use of armed drones and their key role not only on today's battlefields, but also in a covert targeted killing project that has let to the deaths of thousands. Days after 9/11, a CIA Predator in Afghanistan executed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woods, Chris (Journalist) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Colección:Nursing History and Humanities MUP.
Temas:
2001-2009
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles > United States.
Bombing, Aerial > United States.
Military weapons > United States.
Drone aircraft > United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Afghan War, 2001-2021.
Avions de combat sans pilote > États-Unis.
Bombardement aérien > États-Unis.
Armes de guerre > États-Unis.
Drones > États-Unis.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009.
Guerre en Afghānistān, 2001-2021.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Bombing, Aerial
Drone aircraft
Military policy
Military weapons
Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles
United States > Military policy.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • View to a kill : armed drones on the battlefield
  • Birth of a predator : the origins of lethal drones
  • The rise of targeted killing : Yemen and Palestine
  • The cauldron : Iraq 2003-2011
  • The occasional assassin : Bush in Pakistan
  • The enemy without : Western citizens killed by drones
  • Obama's obsession : "AfPak"
  • Game face on : the intimacy of remote killing
  • An absence of transparency : Yemen and Somalia
  • The long road home : Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • The inconstant value of a civilian life
  • Countermeasures and critiques
  • Appendix: Reports of Westerners killed in US targeted strikes, September 2001 to December 2014.

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