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We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
Laurie Calhoun
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Description for We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
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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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783605477
SKU
V9781783605477
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99-10
About Laurie Calhoun
Laurie Calhoun is a philosopher and cultural critic with a special interest in film as a source of moral insight. She is the author of War and Delusion: A Critical Examination (2013) and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic's Critique (1997), in addition to dozens of essays on war, morality and politics.
Reviews for We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
`Fresh, well-researched and well-written ... provides an occasion to think about the deep implications of killing people though drones.' openDemocracy `Vital and compelling reading.' Counterfire 'The drone assassination campaign is the most extraordinary global terror campaign yet conceived and executed. This chilling and comprehensive survey more than amply demonstrates that drone ... Read more