Armed Drones and the Ethics of War: Military Virtue in a Post-Heroic Age

ISBN-13: 9780415540520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 160 str.

Christian Enemark

Opis

Assessing the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles (so-called 'hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts such as Afghanistan and Yemen, this book focuses on the United States, which has recently engaged in the most extensive and conspicuous use of this technology.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Post-heroic war and armed drones  3. Drones and the war threshold  4. Conducting drone warfare: the case of Pakistan  5. Radical asymmetry and the moral equality of combatants  6. Drone operators and the warrior ethos  7. Autonomous drones and post-human war  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Christian Enemark is a Reader in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.