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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benjamin, Medea 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Verso 2013
Edition:Updated edition
Subjects:
Drone aircraft > United States
Drone aircraft > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
Drone aircraft > Government policy > United States
Robotics > Military applications
United States > Military policy > Moral and ethical aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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