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Author : David W. Irvin
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781563118913
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book History of Strategic Drone Operations written by David W. Irvin and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian G. R. Shaw
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452951713
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Predator Empire written by Ian G. R. Shaw and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean for human beings to exist in an era of dronified state violence? How can we understand the rise of robotic systems of power and domination? Focusing on U.S. drone warfare and its broader implications as no other book has to date, Predator Empire argues that we are witnessing a transition from a labor-intensive “American empire” to a machine-intensive “Predator Empire.” Moving from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror and beyond, Ian G. R. Shaw reveals how changes in military strategy, domestic policing, and state surveillance have come together to enclose our planet in a robotic system of control. The rise of drones presents a series of “existential crises,” he suggests, that are reengineering not only spaces of violence but also the character of the modern state. Positioning drone warfare as part of a much longer project to watch and enclose the human species, he shows that for decades—centuries even—human existence has slowly but surely been brought within the artificial worlds of “technological civilization.” Instead of incarcerating us in prisons or colonizing territory directly, the Predator Empire locks us inside a worldwide system of electromagnetic enclosure—in which democratic ideals give way to a system of totalitarian control, a machinic “rule by Nobody.” As accessibly written as it is theoretically ambitious, Predator Empire provides up-to-date information about U.S. drone warfare, as well as an in-depth history of the rise of drones.
Author : Dave Sloggett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632208741
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Drone Warfare written by Dave Sloggett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a navigator or pilot on the ground or in another vehicle. Drone Warfare is one of the first books to examine the development and use of such aerial drones. Drones have been much maligned in the media and popular culture and there has been much controversy over their deployment. This book reveals the history of unmanned aircraft, their recent development, and why they have emerged onto the scene, setting the record straight about drones and their use. Drone Warfare answers questions such as: Why did the United States invest so highly drone technology? When did all that start? What barriers had to be overcome? What was there before drones arrived? What roles did drones play in Iraq and Afghanistan? Were they successful? What new developments emerged during operations? Did they save lives? How many have been shot down and where? Will all air forces be drone based in the future? What other applications may arise in the civilian market? In a timely publication, Drone Warfare sets the record straight on unmanned aerial vehicles and explores technology and usage around the globe. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Robert J. Bunker
Publisher : Department of the Army
ISBN 13 : 9781584876984
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Terrorist and Insurgent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Use, Potentials, and Military Implications written by Robert J. Bunker and published by Department of the Army. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the present threat posed by terrorist and insurgent use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as associated future threat potentials. It also presents a counterintuitive analysis in the sense that armed drones are typically viewed as a component of America's conventional warfighting prowess--not a technology that would be used against U.S. troops deployed overseas or against civilians back home. The emerging threat of such UAV use against us is investigated, and the unique analysis and creative approach related to the threat scenario variants generated are very informative. Undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in homeland security, military science, warfare studies, and criminal justice may be interested in this volume. U.S. Army soldiers and sister organizations may also find value in this publication. Related products: Lethal and Legal: The Ethics of Drone Strikes is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01176-1 Modeling Flight, the Role of Dynamically Scaled Free Flight Models in Support of NASA's Aerospace Program - ePub eBook available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-300-00012-3 ePub format also available from the following channels: Barnes and Noble Nook Bookstore, Google Play eBookstore, Power's Books, Waterstones, Books on Board, Booku, and Overdrive. Please use ePub ISBN: 9780160897443 to search for this product through their platforms. Rethinking the Drone War: National Security, Legitimacy and Civilian Casualties in U.S. Counterterrorism Operations can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01213-0 The Ethics of Drone Strikes: Does Reducing the Cost of Conflict Encourage War is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01213-0
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Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9385714023
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Drone Operations: A Jurislogue written by and published by KW Publishers Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmanned aerial systems, popularly known as drones, have been in the news for all sorts of reasons—good and bad. The media has focussed equally on them for their use in hunting down terrorists and quickly eliminating them, as also for the inadvertent killing of innocent civilians and collateral damage to private property. Infringement of sovereignty is another pertinent area of international concern. Though historically associated with military missions, drones are increasingly proving their utility for internal security and disaster management. Lately, civilian and commercial uses are also proliferating. Indeed, drones have truly become a versatile flying platform. As an aerial machine, drones have started encroaching upon the common-user air space and are striving to integrate their operations with manned military aircraft and civil airliners. The problems of air traffic management and compliance of safety measures are formidable while civil and commercial uses infringe upon personal privacy and property rights. Third-party liability is another important issue for settlement. Comprehensive regulations to handle incumbent problems are not yet in place even as drones are racing ahead in technological development and operational mandates. This book will find interested audience among managers of aviation and air space, as well as persons from the Air Forces worldwide. It will also be of relevance to practising lawyers on air litigation, scholars of air law, as well as the aware layman.
Author : David Axe
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 152677027X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Drone War Vietnam written by David Axe and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the use of drones is now commonplace in modern warfare, it was in its infancy during the Vietnam War, not to mention revolutionary and top secret. Drones would play an important – and today largely unheralded – role in the bloody, two-decade US air war over Vietnam and surrounding countries in the 1960s and ’70s. Drone aircraft spotted targets for manned US bombers, jammed North Vietnamese radars and scattered propaganda leaflets, among other missions. This book explores that obscure chapter of history. DRONE WAR: VIETNAM is based on military records, official histories and published first-hand accounts from early drone operators, as well as on a close survey of existing scholarship on the topic. In their fledgling efforts to send robots instead of human beings on the most dangerous aerial missions, US operators in South-East Asia in the 1960s and ’70s wrote the first chapter in the continuing tale of autonomous warfare.
Author : James Igoe Walsh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047213101X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Drones and Support for the Use of Force written by James Igoe Walsh and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combat drones are transforming attitudes about the use of military force. Military casualties and the costs of conflict sap public support for war and for political and military leaders. Combat drones offer an unprecedented ability to reduce these costs by increasing accuracy, reducing the risks to civilians, and protecting military personnel from harm. These advantages should make drone strikes more popular than operations involving ground troops. Yet many critics believe drone warfare will make political leaders too willing to authorize wars, weakening constraints on the use of force. Because combat drones are relatively new, these arguments have been based on anecdotes, a handful of public opinion polls, or theoretical speculation. Drones and Support for the Use of Force uses experimental research to analyze the effects of combat drones on Americans’ support for the use of force. The authors’ findings—that drones have had important but nuanced effects on support for the use of force—have implications for democratic control of military action and civil-military relations and provide insight into how the proliferation of military technologies influences foreign policy.
Author : John David Blom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Unmanned Aerial Systems written by John David Blom and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manned aerial reconnaissance, from the balloons of WWI to the helicopters of Vietnam, solidified the tactical need for Army Aviation which remained relatively unchanged until 1990. Significant changes have since occured on the battlefield with the advent of the modern day, unmanned flight and its technological abilities. From its humble beginnings of the suggested use of a toy aircraft kit, to the development and use in today's warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) possesses a deep history. Understanding this past may provide clues into where this technology may be going, and what problems could lie ahead.
Author : Laurence R. Newcome
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563476440
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)
Download or read book Unmanned Aviation written by Laurence R. Newcome and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newcome traces the family tree of unmanned aircraft all the way back to their roots as aerial torpedoes, which were the equivalent of todays cruise missiles. He discusses the work of leading aerospace pioneers whose efforts in the area of unmanned aviation have largely been ignored by history.
Author : GrŽgoire Chamayou
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589759
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book A Theory of the Drone written by GrŽgoire Chamayou and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parisian research scholar and author of Manhunts offers a philosophical perspective on the role of drone technology in today's changing military environments and the implications of drone capabilities in enabling democratic choices. 12,500 first printing.
Author : James Igoe Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584875857
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Effectiveness of Drone Strikes in Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism Campaigns written by James Igoe Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States increasingly relies on unmanned aerial vehicles to target insurgent and terrorist groups around the world. This monograph analyzes the available research and evidence that assesses the political and military consequences of drone strikes. It is not clear if drone strikes have degraded their targets, or that they kill enough civilians to create sizable public backlashes against the United States. Drones are a politically and militarily attractive way to counter insurgents and terrorists, but, paradoxically, this may lead to their use in situations where they are less likely to be effective and where they are difficult to predict consequences.
Author : David Axe
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526770288
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Drone War Vietnam written by David Axe and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the use of drones is now commonplace in modern warfare, it was in its infancy during the Vietnam War, not to mention revolutionary and top secret. Drones would play an important – and today largely unheralded – role in the bloody, two-decade US air war over Vietnam and surrounding countries in the 1960s and ’70s. Drone aircraft spotted targets for manned US bombers, jammed North Vietnamese radars and scattered propaganda leaflets, among other missions. This book explores that obscure chapter of history. DRONE WAR: VIETNAM is based on military records, official histories and published first-hand accounts from early drone operators, as well as on a close survey of existing scholarship on the topic. In their fledgling efforts to send robots instead of human beings on the most dangerous aerial missions, US operators in South-East Asia in the 1960s and ’70s wrote the first chapter in the continuing tale of autonomous warfare.
Author : Geoff Martin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498549586
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Drone Nation written by Geoff Martin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drone Nation unveils an unexpected scenario where international drone warfare leads to a state of permanent war through increasing numbers of assassinations of the western world’s declared enemies. It provides historical context for the rise and acceptance of drone warfare and examines likely future impacts. The book discusses the broad political-economic forces at play in the United States. Topics include US strategic traditions, domestic political institutions, military-industrial complex, intra-military pressures, think tanks, media, and international law. The authors argue that social progress is not necessarily continuous. While there was widespread social and economic progress from the 1950s through 1970s in the United States, the country is now in a period of economic and political regression. The rise of drone warfare, and the domestic use of drones, is partly to blame. This gradual and important change signals a major departure from the traditional embrace of international law, military ethics, and domestic privacy.
Author : Seth J. Frantzman
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1642936766
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Drone Wars written by Seth J. Frantzman and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the battle for the streets of Mosul in Iraq, drones in the hands of ISIS terrorists made life hell for the Iraq army and civilians. Today, defense companies are racing to develop the lasers, microwave weapons, and technology necessary for confronting the next drone threat. Seth J. Frantzman takes the reader from the midnight exercises with Israel’s elite drone warriors, to the CIA headquarters where new drone technology was once adopted in the 1990s to hunt Osama bin Laden. This rapidly expanding technology could be used to target nuclear power plants and pose a threat to civilian airports. In the Middle East, the US used a drone to kill Iranian arch-terrorist Qasem Soleimani, a key Iranian commander. Drones are transforming the battlefield from Syria to Libya and Yemen. For militaries and security agencies—the main users of expensive drones—the UAV market is expanding as well; there were more than 20,000 military drones in use by 2020. Once the province of only a few militaries, drones now being built in Turkey, China, Russia, and smaller countries like Taiwan may be joining the military drone market. It’s big business, too—$100 billion will be spent over the next decade on drones. Militaries may soon be spending more on drones than tanks, much as navies transitioned away from giant vulnerable battleships to more agile ships. The future wars will be fought with drones and won by whoever has the most sophisticated technology.
Author : Francis N. Okpaleke
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031477308
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Drones and US Grand Strategy in the Contemporary World written by Francis N. Okpaleke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a compelling case that lethal drone deployment as a counterterrorism tool and instrument of statecraft in targeted states engenders far-reaching consequences for US grand strategy. By examining how successive US administrations since 9/11 have deployed drones in pursuant of different typologies of US grand strategic objectives, the book probes the putative political and strategic goals drones supposedly advance, and the impact of its continued proliferation for US for international security. The book provides a powerful base of evidence for policy makers and researchers by pointing to the perils of deployment of drone technology beyond their immediate or short-term objectives. It also explores how non-state actors and authoritarian regimes such as armed groups are harnessing armed drone technologies for their own political and military ends, as well as the underlying implications for US grand strategy and international security at large.
Author : Grégoire Chamayou
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589767
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book A Theory of the Drone written by Grégoire Chamayou and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this groundbreaking new work shows, the full implications of drones have barely been addressed in the recent media storm. In a unique take on a subject that has grabbed headlines and is consuming billions of taxpayer dollars each year, philosopher Grégoire Chamayou applies the lens of philosophy to our understanding of how drones are changing our world. For the first time in history, a state has claimed the right to wage war across a mobile battlefield that potentially spans the globe. Remote-control flying weapons, he argues, take us well beyond even George W. Bush's justification for the war on terror. What we are seeing is a fundamental transformation of the laws of war that have defined military conflict as between combatants. As more and more drones are launched into battle, war now has the potential to transform into a realm of secretive, targeted assassinations of individuals—beyond the view and control not only of potential enemies but also of citizens of democracies themselves. Far more than a simple technology, Chamayou shows, drones are profoundly influencing what it means for a democracy to wage war. A Theory of the Drone will be essential reading for all who care about this important question.
Author : Julie J. C. H. Ryan
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781724077066
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Uas) in the Cyber Domain: Protecting Usa's Advanced Air Assets written by Julie J. C. H. Ryan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are an integral part of the US national critical infrastructure. They must be protected from hostile intent or use to the same level as any other military or commercial asset involved in US national security. However, from the Spratly Islands to Djibouti to heartland America, the expanding Chinese Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS / Drone) industry has outpaced the US technologically and numerically on all fronts: military, commercial, and recreational. Both countries found that there were large information security gaps in unmanned systems that could be exploited on the international cyber-security stage. Many of those gaps remain today and are direct threats to US advanced Air Assets if not mitigated upfront by UAS designers and manufacturers. The authors contend that US military / commercial developers of UAS hardware and software must perform cyber risk assessments and mitigations prior to delivery of UAS systems to stay internationally competitive and secure. The authors have endeavored to bring a breadth and quality of information to the reader that is unparalleled in the unclassified sphere. This book will fully immerse and engage the reader in the cyber-security considerations of this rapidly emerging technology that we know as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Topics covered include National Airspace (NAS) policy issues, information security, UAS vulnerabilities in key systems (Sense and Avoid / SCADA), collision avoidance systems, stealth design, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms; weapons systems security; electronic warfare considerations; data-links, jamming operational vulnerabilities and still-emerging political scenarios that affect US military / commercial decisions.
