Drone warfare killing by remote control
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 dro...
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| 505 | 0 | |a A sordid love affair with killer drones -- It's a growth market -- Here a drone, there a drone, everywhere a drone -- Pilot 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 | |
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