The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace,Michael J. Boyle

Résumé

This book explores six ways in which drones affect risk calculations and goals of their users, government and non-state actors alike, and have consequences for war and peace in the twenty-first century.

First, drones undermine the long-standing legal and ethical prohibitions on
assassination and extrajudicial violence outside of wartime. Chapter 3
will trace the emergence of the practice of targeted killing from its origin to its embrace by the United States after the September 11 attacks.
It shows how the United States adopted drones alongside the practice of targeted killing to control risks as it fought a new war against al Qaeda, but found itself gradually drifting into more conflict zones and fighting new enemies.

Second, this book argues that drones accelerate the trend toward information-rich warfare and place enormous pressure on the military to learn ever more about the battlefields that it may face.

Third,  drones allow non-state actors like rebel and terrorist groups to level the playing field with powerful governments and to expand their goals as a result of being able to take to the skies.
Traditionally, conflicts between governments and their non-state challengers are marked by asymmetry of power, with governments far better equipped with resources to defeat their non-state opponents.

Fourth, drones will transform the dynamics of protest and surveillance in democratic and non-democratic states, as chapter 6 will illustrate.

Fifth, drones will enable international organizations, NGOs, and advocacy groups to monitor human rights abuses, deliver relief, and pressure governments for change. As chapter 7 discusses, small surveillance drones are ideally suited for taking on the “dull, dirty, and dangerous”jobs that are needed in these situations.

Finally, drones will amplify the competition for power and influence
between states in conflict zones and produce new risks of deterrence
breakdown and crisis escalation.

-CONTENTS  

Acknowledgments ix
1. The Drone Age                               1
2. Automated Warfare                     27
3. Death from Above                       55
4. Eyes in the Sky                            96
5. Terrorist Drones                        131
6. The All-Seeing Drone                166
7. Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous       195
8. The New Race                            234
9. The Future                                  272
Notes                                              293
Index                                               369

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution : April 30, 2020

N.de pages : 399 pages

editeur : Oxford University Press (April 30, 2020)

ASIN : B08763Y1DD

Language: : English

Éditeur:Oxford University Press, 2020

ISBN:0197501788, 9780197501788