A theory of the drone

Techniques and tacticsMethodologies 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 k...

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1. Verfasser:	Chamayou, Grégoire (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Lloyd, Janet (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format:	UnknownFormat
Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	New York, London The New Press 2015
Schlagworte:	Drone aircraft > Moral and ethical aspects > Military ethics > Drohne > Kriegführung > Ethik
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Zusammenfassung:	Techniques and tacticsMethodologies 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.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	292 S. Ill.
ISBN:	9781595589750 978-1-59558-975-0