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Drone warfare and lawfare in a post-heroic age / Marouf Hasian Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric, law, and the humanitiesPublisher: Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817389116
  • 0817389113
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Drone warfare and lawfare in a post-heroic ageDDC classification:
  • 343.73/0142 23
LOC classification:
  • UG1242.D7 H38 2016eb
  • KZ6687 .H38 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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