Christian Enemark

Armed Drones and the Ethics of War (eBook, PDF)

Military virtue in a post-heroic age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136261213
• Artikelnr.: 39910622

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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