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Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing

Author : Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442231572
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing written by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drones have become an essential part of U.S. national security strategy, but most Americans know little about how they are used, and we receive conflicting reports about their outcomes. In Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing, ethicist Kenneth R. Himes provides not only an overview of the role of drones in national security but also an important exploration of the ethical implications of drone warfare—from the impact on terrorist organizations and civilians to how piloting drones shapes soldiers. Targeted killings have played a role in politics from ancient times through today, so the ethical challenges around how to protect against threats are not new. Himes leads readers through the ethics of targeted killings in history from ancient times to the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict, then looks specifically at the new issues raised through the use of drones. This book is a powerful look at a pressing topic today.

Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing

Author : Kenneth R. Himes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442231566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing written by Kenneth R. Himes and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Himes, a professor of moral theology at Boston University, examines the role of drones in national security and the ethical implications of their use.

Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing

Author : Kenneth R. Himes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788182749351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing written by Kenneth R. Himes and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drones and Targeted Killing

Author : Marjorie (ed.) Cohn
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623710650
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Drones and Targeted Killing written by Marjorie (ed.) Cohn and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXPERT ANALYSIS OF AN ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL PRACTICE The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them. Assassination, or targeted killing, off the battlefield not only causes more resentment against the United States, it is also illegal. In this interdisciplinary collection, human rights and political activists, policy analysts, lawyers and legal scholars, a philosopher, a journalist and a sociologist examine different aspects of the U.S. policy of targeted killing with drones and other methods. It explores the legality, morality and geopolitical considerations of targeted killing and resulting civilian casualties, and evaluates the impact on relations between the United States and affected countries. The book includes the documentation of civilian casualties by the leading non-governmental organization in this area; stories of civilians victimized by drones; an analysis of the first U.S. targeted killing lawsuit by the lawyer who brought the case; a discussion of the targeted killing cases in Israel by the director of PCATI which filed one of the lawsuits; the domestic use of drones; and the immorality of drones using Just War principles. Contributors include: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Phyllis Bennis, Medea Benjamin, Marjorie Cohn, Richard Falk, Tom Hayden, Pardiss Kebriaei, Jane Mayer, Ishai Menuchin, Jeanne Mirer, John Quigley, Dr. Tom Reifer, Alice Ross, Jay Stanley, and Harry Van der Linden.

Drones and Targeted Killings

Author : Sarah Knuckey
Publisher : Central European Uni Press
ISBN 13 : 9781617700996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Drones and Targeted Killings written by Sarah Knuckey and published by Central European Uni Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drones and Targeted Killings: Ethics, Law, and Politics is a unique collection of sources that reveal the dilemmas, concerns, and issues surrounding the use of drone strikes and targeted killings. The anthology was developed with an understanding that readers need to engage this issue using a variety of resources including speeches, congressional testimony, news and scholarly articles, and legal briefs that discuss various sides of the debate. An introductory essay offers background and perspective on the issues. The book contains four sections that address some of the key elements of the debate: Are drone strikes and targeted killings effective? Are they ethical? Are the legal? Is there adequate transparency and government accountability?"--Page [4] of cover.

Targeted Killings

Author : Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199646481
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Targeted Killings written by Claire Oakes Finkelstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy surrounding targeted killings represents a crisis of conscience for policymakers, lawyers and philosophers grappling with the moral and legal limits of the war on terror. This text examines the legal and philosophical issues raised by government efforts to target suspected terrorists.

Legal and Ethical Implications of Drone Warfare

Author : Michael Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315473437
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Legal and Ethical Implications of Drone Warfare written by Michael Boyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Worldwide, over 80 governments are developing their own drone programs, and even non-state actors such as the Islamic State have begun to experiment with drones. The speed of technological change and adaptation with drones is so rapid that it is outpacing the legal and ethical frameworks which govern the use of force. This volume brings together experts in law, ethics and political science to address how drone technology is slowly changing the rules and norms surrounding the use of force and enabling new, sometimes unprecedented, actions by states. It addresses some of the most crucial questions in the debate over drones today. Are drones a revolutionary form of technology that will transform warfare or is their effect merely hype? Can drone use on the battlefield be made wholly consistent with international law? How does drone technology begin to shift the norms governing the use of force? What new legal and ethical problems are presented by targeted killings outside of declared war zones? Should drones be considered a humane form of warfare? Finally, is it possible that drones could be a force for good in humanitarian disasters and peacekeeping missions in the near future? This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Drones and Ethics of Targeted Killing

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Drone Strike–Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing

Author : Mitt Regan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030911195
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Drone Strike–Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing written by Mitt Regan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intense debate over US targeted drone strikes outside war zones has been limited by the failure to review and assess a considerable body of quantitative research and qualitative material on the impacts of such strikes on terrorist groups and civilians. This book fills an important gap in the literature by conducting a careful and rigorous review of such evidence. It argues that decisions about the use of targeted strikes as a counterterrorism instrument, as well as legal and ethical evaluations of such use, must be informed by our best understanding of the insights that empirical evidence can provide on the effectiveness of strikes and the costs they impose on populations where they occur.

Analyzing the Drone Debates: Targeted Killing, Remote Warfare, and Military Technology

Author : James DeShaw Rae
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137381574
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing the Drone Debates: Targeted Killing, Remote Warfare, and Military Technology written by James DeShaw Rae and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines principal arguments for and against the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and 'targeted killing.' Addressing both sides of the argument with clear and cogent details, the book provides a thorough introduction to ongoing debate about the future of warfare and its ethical implications.

Killing by Remote Control

Author : Bradley Jay Strawser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199926131
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Killing by Remote Control written by Bradley Jay Strawser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from this new form of killing by remote control. Many, for example, are troubled by the impact that killing through the mediated mechanisms of a drone half a world away has on the pilots who fly them. What happens to concepts such as bravery and courage when a war-fighter controlling a drone is never exposed to any physical danger? This dramatic shift in risk also creates conditions of extreme asymmetry between those who wage war and those they fight. What are the moral implications of such asymmetry on the military that employs such drones and the broader questions for war and a hope for peace in the world going forward? How does this technology impact the likely successes of counter-insurgency operations or humanitarian interventions? Does not such weaponry run the risk of making war too easy to wage and tempt policy makers into killing when other more difficult means should be undertaken? Killing By Remote Control directly engages all of these issues. Some essays discuss the just war tradition and explore whether the rise of drones necessitates a shift in the ways we think about the ethics of war in the broadest sense. Others scrutinize more specific uses of drones, such as their present use in what are known as "targeted killing" by the United States. The book similarly tackles the looming prospect of autonomous drones and the many serious moral misgivings such a future portends. "A path-breaking volume! BJ Strawser, an internationally known analyst of drone ethics, has assembled a broad spectrum of civilian and military experts to create the first book devoted to this hot-button issue. This important work represents vanguard thinking on weapon systems that make headlines nearly every day. It will catalyze debates policy-makers and military leaders must have in order to preserve peace and protect the innocent. - James Cook, Department Chair/Head of Philosophy, US Air Force Academy "The use of 'drones' (remotely piloted air vehicles) in war has grown exponentially in recent years. Clearly, this evolution presages an enormous explosion of robotic vehicles in war - in the air, on the ground, and on and under the sea. This collection of essays provides an invaluable contribution to what promises to be one of the most fundamental challenges to our assumptions about ethics and warfare in at least the last century. The authors in this anthology approach the ethical challenges posed by these rapidly advancing technologies from a wide range of perspectives. Cumulatively, they represent an essential overview of the fundamental ethical issues involved in their development. This collection makes a key contribution to an urgently needed dialogue about the moral questions involved." - Martin L. Cook, Adm. James B. Stockdale Professor of Professional Military Ethics, Professor Leadership & Ethics, College of Operational & Strategic Leadership, U.S. Naval War College

Opposing Perspectives on the Drone Debate

Author : B. Strawser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137432632
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Opposing Perspectives on the Drone Debate written by B. Strawser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the lethal use of drones pose any new or difficult moral problems? Or is the controversy over these weapons merely a distraction from deeper questions regarding the justice of war and the United States' bellicose foreign policy? Opposing Perspectives on the Drone Debate pulls no punches in answering these questions as five scholars square off in a lively debate over the ethics of drones and their contentious use in a point-counterpoint debate. The contributing authors are some of the foremost thinkers in international affairs today, spanning the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, political science, and law. Topics debated range from the US's contested policy of so-called "targeted killing" in Pakistan's tribal regions to fears over the damaging effects such weaponry has on our democratic institutions to the more abstract moral questions raised by killing via remote control such as the duty to capture over kill.

Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing

Author : Kyle Grayson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317238974
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing written by Kyle Grayson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks, and the intensive media and activist scrutiny of the policy processes through which targeted killing decisions have been made. While contributing to these ongoing discussions, this book aims to determine how targeted killing has become possible in contemporary counter-insurgency operations undertaken by liberal regimes. Each chapter is oriented around a problematisation that has shaped the cultural politics of the targeted killing assemblage. Grayson argues that in order to understand how specific forms of violence become prevalent, it is important to determine how problematisations that enable them are shaped by a politico-cultural system in which culture operates in conjunction with technological, economic, governmental, and geostrategic elements. The book also demonstrates that the actors involved - what they may be attempting to achieve through the deployment of this form of violence, how they attempt to achieve it, and where they attempt to achieve it - are also shaped by culture. The book demonstrates how the current social relations prevalent in liberal societies contain the potential for targeted killing as a normal rather than extraordinary practice. It will be of great use for academic specialists and graduate students in international studies, geography, sociology, cultural studies and legal studies.

Lethal and Legal?

Author : Shima D. Keene
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781688156357
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Lethal and Legal? written by Shima D. Keene and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While supporters claim that drone warfare is not only legal but ethical and wise, others have suggested that drones are prohibited weapons under International Humanitarian Law (IHL) because they cause, or have the effect of causing, indiscriminate killings of civilians, such as those in the vicinity of a targeted person. The main legal justification made by the Barack Obama Administration for the use of armed drones is self-defense. However, there is ambiguity as to whether this argument can justify a number of recent attacks by the United States. In order to determine the legality of armed drone strikes, other factors such as sovereignty, proportionality, the legitimacy of individual targets, and the methods used for the selection of targets must also be considered. One justification for the ethical landscape is the reduced amount of collateral damage relative to other forms of strike. Real time eyes on target allow last-minute decisions and monitoring for unintended victims, and precise tracking of the target through multiple systems allows further refinements of proportionality. However, this is of little benefit if the definition of "targets" is itself flawed and encompasses noncombatants and unconnected civilians. This monograph provides a number of specific recommendations intended to ensure that the benefits of drone warfare are weighed against medium- and long-term second order effects in order to measure whether targeted killings are serving their intended purpose of countering terrorism rather than encouraging and fueling it.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War

Author : Seth Lazar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199944393
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War written by Seth Lazar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest, among both philosophers, legal scholars, and military experts, on the ethics of war. Due in part due to post 9/11 events, this resurgence is also due to a growing theoretical sophistication among scholars in this area. Recently there has been very influential work published on the justificaton of killing in self-defense and war, and the topic of the ethics of war is now more important than ever as a discrete field. The 28 commissioned chapters in this Handbook will present a comprehensive overview of the field as well as make significant and novel contributions, and collectively they will set the terms of the debate for the next decade. Lazar and Frowe will invite the leading scholars in the field to write on topics that are new to them, making the volume a compilation of fresh ideas rather than a rehash of earlier work. The volume will be dicided into five sections: Method, History, Resort, Conduct, and Aftermath. The contributors will be a mix of junior and senior figures, and will include well known scholars like Michael Walzer, Jeff McMahan, and David Rodin.

Predators

Author : Brian Glyn Williams
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346189
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Predators written by Brian Glyn Williams and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIAas and U.S. militaryas most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies, terrorists, insurgents, and innocent tribal peoples who have been killed in the covert operationthe CIAas largest assassination campaign since the Vietnam War erabeing waged in Pakistanas tribal regions via remote control aircraft known as drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles. Having traveled extensively in the Pashtun tribal areas while working for the U.S. military and the CIA, Williams explores in detail of the new technology of airborne assassinations. From miniature Scorpion missiles designed to kill terrorists while avoiding civilian collateral damageA to prathrais, the cigarette lightersize homing beacons spies plant on their unsuspecting targets to direct drone missiles to them, the author describes the drone arsenal in full. Evaluating the ethics of targeted killings and drone technology, Williams covers more than a hundred drone strikes, analyzing the number of slain civilians versus the number of terrorists killed to address the claims of antidrone activists. In examining the future of drone warfare, he reveals that the U.S. military is already building more unmanned than manned aerial vehicles. Predators helps us weigh the pros and cons of the drone program so that we can decide whether it is a vital strategic asset, a frenemy, A or a little of both.

Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict

Author : David Cortright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647836X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict written by David Cortright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, armed drones have entered the American military arsenal as a core tactic for countering terrorism. When coupled with access to reliable information, they make it possible to deploy lethal force accurately across borders while keeping one’s own soldiers out of harm’s way. The potential to direct force with great precision also offers the possibility of reducing harm to civilians. At the same time, because drones eliminate some of the traditional constraints on the use of force—like the need to gain political support for full mobilization—they lower the threshold for launching military strikes. The development of drone use capacity across dozens of countries increases the need for global standards on the use of these weapons to assure that their deployment is strategically wise and ethically and legally sound. Presenting a robust conversation among leading scholars in the areas of international legal standards, counterterrorism strategy, humanitarian law, and the ethics of force, Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict takes account of current American drone campaigns and the developing legal, ethical, and strategic implications of this new way of warfare. Among the contributions to this volume are a thorough examination of the American government’s legal justifications for the targeting of enemies using drones, an analysis of American drone campaigns’ notable successes and failures, and a discussion of the linked issues of human rights, freedom of information, and government accountability.