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Armed Drones and the Ethics of War - Military virtue in a post-heroic age (Hardcover, New)
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Armed Drones and the Ethics of War - Military virtue in a post-heroic age (Hardcover, New)
Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
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This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned
aerial vehicles ('hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts.
The American way of war is trending away from the heroic and
towards the post-heroic, driven by a political preference for
air-powered management of strategic risks and the reduction of
physical risk to US personnel. The recent use of drones in the War
on Terror has demonstrated the power of this technology to
transcend time and space, but there has been relatively little
debate in the United States and elsewhere over the embrace of what
might be regarded as politically desirable and yet morally
worrisome: risk-free killing. Arguably, the absence of a
relationship of mutual risk between putative combatants poses a
fundamental challenge to the status of war as something morally
distinguishable from other forms of violence, and it also
undermines the professional virtue of the warrior as a courageous
risk-taker. This book considers the use of armed drones in the
light of ethical principles that are intended to guard against
unjust increases in the incidence and lethality of armed conflict.
The evidence and arguments presented indicate that, in some
respects, the use of armed drones is to be welcomed as an ethically
superior mode of warfare. Over time, however, their continued and
increased use is likely to generate more challenges than solutions,
and perhaps do more harm than good. This book will be of much
interest to students of the ethics of war, airpower,
counter-terrorism, strategic studies and security studies in
general.
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