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We Kill Because We Can
From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
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Artikel-Nr:
9781783605477
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.10.2016
Seiten:
416
Autor:
Laurie Calhoun
Gewicht:
387 g
Format:
198x131x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Calhoun, Laurie
Laurie Calhoun is a philosopher and cultural critic with a special interest in film as a source of moral insight. She is the author of War and Delusion: A Critical Examination and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic's Critique, in addition to dozens of essays on war, morality and politics.
Laurie Calhoun is a philosopher and cultural critic with a special interest in film as a source of moral insight. She is the author of War and Delusion: A Critical Examination and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic's Critique, in addition to dozens of essays on war, morality and politics.
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.
A disturbing and controversial exposé of the ethics of remote-controlled warfare in the twenty-first century.
A disturbing and controversial exposé of the ethics of remote-controlled warfare in the twenty-first century.
Foreword to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Find
1. Drone Nation
2. From Black Ops to Standard Operating Procedure
3. The Logic of Targeted Killing
4. Lethal Creep
Part II: Fix
5. Strike First, Suppress Questions Later
6. The New Banality of Killing
7. The Operators
8. From Conscience to Oblivion
Part III: Finish
9. Death and Politics
10. Death and Taxes
11. The Death of Military Virtue
12. Tyrants Are as Tyrants Do
Conclusion
Postface
Appendix: Drone Killing and Just War Theory