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

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136261213
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 172.42
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Contents:
Cover -- Armed Drones and the Ethics of War -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 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 -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles (so-called 'hunter-killer drones'), such as the Predator and Reaper, in contemporary conflicts such as Afghanistan and Yemen.
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Cover -- Armed Drones and the Ethics of War -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 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 -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles (so-called 'hunter-killer drones'), such as the Predator and Reaper, in contemporary conflicts such as Afghanistan and Yemen.

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