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A theory of the drone /
"Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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New York :
The New Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Techniques and tactics. Methodologies for a hostile environment ; The genealogy of the predator ; The theoretical principles of manhunting ; Surveillance and annihilation ; Pattern-of-life analysis ; Kill box ; Counterinsurgency from the air ; Vulnerabilities
- Ethos and psyche. Drones and kamikazes ; "That others may die" ; A crisis in military ethos ; Psychopathologies of the drone ; Killing from a distance
- Necroethics. Combatant immunity ; A humanitarian weapon ; Precision
- The principles of the philosophy of the right to kill. Indelicate murderers ; Warfare without combat ; License to kill
- Political bodies. In war as in peace ; Democratic militarism ; The essence of combatants ; The fabrication of political automata
- Epilogue: On war, from a distance.