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One Nation Under Drones - Legality, Morality, and Utility of Unmanned Combat Systems (Audio cassette, Abridged edition)
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One Nation Under Drones - Legality, Morality, and Utility of Unmanned Combat Systems (Audio cassette, Abridged edition)
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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 Professor John Jackson, who holds the
E.A. Sperry Chair of Unmanned and Robotic Systems at the United
States Naval War College, 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 book 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 9-11-2001, readers will discover how they
actually trace their lineage to the First World War, 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
inter-continental 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 stand-points. 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. This work will become the definitive volume on the subject,
providing the facts and avoiding the hype about systems that have
moved off the pages of science fiction and into the environment all
around us.
General
Imprint: |
Naval Institute Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Editors: |
John E. Jackson
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Audio cassette
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Pages: |
256 |
Edition: |
Abridged edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-55750-138-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-55750-138-6 |
Barcode: |
9781557501387 |
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