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Autore |
Calhoun Laurie |
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Titolo |
We kill because we can : from soldiering to assassination in the drone age / / Laurie Calhoun |
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London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-350-22390-5 |
1-78360-549-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 400 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Military robots - Moral and ethical aspects |
Drone aircraft - Moral and ethical aspects |
Weapons systems - Automation - Moral and ethical aspects |
War - Moral and ethical aspects |
Autonomous robots - United States |
Military ethics |
Militarism - Ethics |
Geopolitics |
United States Armed Forces Weapons systems Automation |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-369), filmography (pages 371-373), and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Find. Drone Nation -- From black ops to standard operating procedure -- The logic of targeted killing -- Lethal creep -- Fix. Strike first, suppress questions later -- The new banality of killing -- The operators -- From conscience to oblivion -- Finish. Death and politics -- Death and taxes -- The death of military virtue -- Tyrants are as tyrants do. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard operating procedure. In this remarkable and often shocking book, Laurie Calhoun dissects the moral, psychological, and cultural impact of remote-control killing in the twenty-first |
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century. Can a drone operator conducting a targeted killing be likened to a mafia hitman? What difference, if any, is there between the Trayvon Martin case and the drone killing of a teen in Yemen? We Kill Because We Can takes a scalpel to the dark heart of Western foreign policy in order to answer these and many other troubling questions"--Page 4 of cover. |
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