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An edition of A theory of the drone (2015)

A theory of the drone

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In a unique take on a subject that has grabbed headlines and is consuming billions of taxpayer dollars each year, philosopher Grégoire Chamayou applies the lens of philosophy to our understanding of how drones are changing our world. For the first time in history, a state has claimed the right to wage war across a mobile battlefield that potentially spans the globe. Remote-control flying weapons, he argues, take us well beyond even George W. Bush's justification for the war on terror.

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The New Press
Language
English
Pages
292

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Drone aircraft, Military ethics, Moral and ethical aspects
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-274) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
172/.42
Library of Congress
UG479 .C53 2015, UG479.C53 2013

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Pagination
292 pages
Number of pages
292

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27177424M
ISBN 10
1595589759
ISBN 13
9781595589750
LCCN
2014033225
OCLC/WorldCat
890011437

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19997319W

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