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We Kill Because We Can
From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
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Artikel-Nr:
9781783605484
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.11.2015
Seiten:
410
Autor:
Laurie Calhoun
Gewicht:
780 g
Format:
241x156x40 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Find1. Drone Nation2. From Black Ops to Standard Operating Procedure3. The Logic of Targeted Killing4. Lethal CreepPart II: Fix5. Strike First, Suppress Questions Later6. The New Banality of Killing7. The Operators8. From Conscience to OblivionPart III: Finish9. Death and Politics10. Death and Taxes11. The Death of Military Virtue12. Tyrants Are as Tyrants DoConclusionPostfaceAppendix: Drone Killing and Just War Theory