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Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins
Cockburn, Andrew
Date Written: 2015-03-10Publisher: Verso Books Year Published: 2015 Pages: 320pp ISBN: 9781781689462 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX18042 History of drone warfare, a development in military technology that has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from the White House, through the drone command center in Nevada, to the skies of Helmand Province. Abstract: - Table of Contents 1 Remember, Kill Chain 1 2 Wiring the Jungle 17 3 Turning People into Nodes 32 4 Predator Politics 51 5 It's Not Assassination If We Do It 73 6 Kingpins and Maniacs 93 7 Legally Blind 118 8 Kill Them! Prevail! 133 9 Killing Effects 151 10 A Piece of Junk 168 11 Death by a Number 189 12 Drones, Baby, Drones! 211 13 One Big Robot 244 Notes 261 Acknowledgments 297 Index 299 Subject Headings |