Along with an examination of these, Cockburn looks at the practice of viewing the enemy as a network to be analyzed from a distance, with “targeters” of some sort or another trying to figure out ways to ways to most damage the enemy by destroying particular targets (i.e. Cockburn argues that drone warfare is not as effective, discriminate, and cheap as its proponents claim.Ĭocksburn argues that, rather than completely revolutionary and unprecedented, drone warfare has roots in strategic bombing (dating from World War Two), the evolution of technology to observe and control the battlespace (dating from Vietnam) and the idea of precision targeting. An accessible and well-written history of drone warfare from the perspective of the policymakers, targeters, pilots, targets and unintended victims.
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