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Title: Drone Warfare
Condition: New
EAN: 9781781680773
ISBN: 9781781680773
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 04/09/2013
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 127mm
Language: English
Subtitle: Killing by Remote Control
ISBN-10: 1781680779
Description: 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 drone "pilots" than bomber and fighter pilots combined. Drones are already a $5 billion business in the US alone. The human cost? Drone strikes have killed more than 200 children alone in Pakistan and Yemen.
CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin provides the first extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who controls these unmanned planes, and what are the legal and moral implications of their use. In vivid, readable style, this book also looks at what activists, lawyers, and scientists across the globe are doing to ground these weapons. Benjamin argues that the assassinations we are carrying out from the air will come back to haunt us when others start doing the same thing-to us.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Width: 3mm
Item Weight: 287g
Author: Medea Benjamin
Contributor: Barbara Ehrenreich (Foreword by)
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Year: 2013

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