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One Nation, Under Drones - Legality, Morality, and Utility of Unmanned Combat Systems (Hardcover)
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One Nation, Under Drones - Legality, Morality, and Utility of Unmanned Combat Systems (Hardcover)
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One Nation Under Drones is an interesting and informative review of
how robotic and unmanned systems are impacting every aspect of
American life, from how we fight our wars to how we play to how we
grow our food. Edited by John Jackson, this highly readable book
features chapters from a dozen experts, researchers, and operators
of the sophisticated systems that have become ubiquitous across the
nation and around the world. Press reports have focused primarily
on unmanned aerial vehicles, officially designated as UAVs, but
more often referred to as 'drones'. This work takes you behind the
scenes and describes how Predators, Reapers, Scan Eagles, and
dozens of other pilotless aircraft have been used to fight the
Global War on Terrorism. Although these systems seemed to emerge
fully-developed into the skies above America's distant battlefields
following the attacks of September 11, 2001, readers will discover
that they actually trace their lineage to World War I, when the
'automatic airplane/aerial torpedo', designed and built by the
Sperry Gyroscope Company, made its first flight just over a century
ago. Unmanned aircraft were used by various combatants in World War
II and took many forms: from converted manned bombers to
intercontinental attacks on the American homeland by rice-paper
balloons. Technology developed in the latter decades of the 20th
century enabled crews stationed thousands of miles away to attack
targets on remote battlefields. Such long-range and
remote-controlled weapons have been extensively used but are
controversial from both legal and ethical standpoints. Chapters
written by international law specialists and drone pilots with
advanced education in ethics address these issues from both sides
of the argument. The book also details how robotic systems are
being used on land, in and below the seas, and in civilian
applications such as driverless cars. Three dozen photographs
display drones as small as an insect up to those as large as a 737
airliner. One Nation Under Drones covers such a wide array of
topics that it will be of interest to everyone from the casual
reader seeking to know more about these systems to national
security professionals, both in and out of uniform, who will be
making decisions about their procurement and use in decades to
come.
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