We kill because we can
Subtitle: from soldiering to assassination in the Drone Age
By: Laurie Calhoun
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781783605484
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Militarism; Ethics; War; Drone aircraft; Military robots
Description: "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 heart of Western foreign policy in order to answer these and many other troubling questions"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.