Drone warfare and lawfare in a post-heroic age / Marouf Hasian Jr.
Material type: TextSeries: Rhetoric, law, and the humanitiesPublisher: Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780817389116
- 0817389113
- Drone aircraft -- Political aspects -- United States
- Drone aircraft -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
- Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)
- LAW -- Military
- Uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law)
- United States
- Lawfare (Transnational litigation for political purposes)
- 343.73/0142 23
- UG1242.D7 H38 2016eb
- KZ6687 .H38 2016
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-262) and index.
An argumentation approach to the study of drone warfare and lawfare -- The genealogical origins of heroic anxieties over asymmetrical warfare, aerial bombing, and the "drone syndrome" -- The George W. Bush administration and America's adoption of the drones, 2001-2008 -- Preserving one's honor and one's humanity: mediascapes and Pakistani countervisual critiques of the drone wars -- Humanizing drone pilots, the politics of verticality, and the public legitimation of US drone policies -- The Obama administration's immunization rhetorics, the "dispositional matrix," and the biopolitical expansion of the drone wars -- Futuristic drone fantasies, the responsibility to protect (R2P), and drone proliferation.
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