| Description |
xvi, 386 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-365) and index. |
| Contents |
View to a kill : armed drones on the battlefield -- Birth of a predator : the origins of lethal drones -- The rise of targeted killing : Yemen and Palestine -- The cauldron : Iraq, 2003-2011 -- The occasional assassin : Bush in Pakistan -- The enemy without : western citizens killed by drones -- Obama's obsession : "AFPAK" -- Game face on : the intimacy of remote killing -- A absence of transparency : Yemen and Somalia -- The long road home : Afghanistan and Pakistan -- The inconstant value of civilian life -- Countermeasures and critiques -- Appendix : Reports of westerners killed in US targeted strikes, September 2001 to December 2014. |
| Subject |
Drone aircraft -- United States.
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Military weapons -- United States.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021
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| ISBN |
9780190202590 |
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0190202599 |
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