Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins - Softcover

Cockburn, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250081637 ISBN 13: 9781250081636

Verlag: PICADOR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

"For the first time in our military history, how we wage war is being built around a single strategy: the tracking and elimination of "high value targets"--in other words, assassination by military drone. Kill Chain is the story of how this new paradigm came to be, from WWII to the present; revealing the inner workings of these military technologies; introducing the key figures behind the transformation as well as the people on whom these deadly technologies have been tested; and illuminating the effectsof drone warfare on our global image. This book will shed new light on the subject, from drone development in WWII and their use in the Vietnam War, to their embrace by the Bush administration and their controversial use by President Obama today. Cockburn will detail the corporate and political agendas that have effectively legitimized the once-banned practice of assassination, and the devastating effects of drone strikes gone awry"--

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Andrew Cockburn is the Washington Editor of Harper's magazine and the author of many articles and books on national security, including the New York Times Editor's Choice Rumsfeld and The Threat, which destroyed the myth of Soviet military superiority underpinning the Cold War. He is a regular opinion contributor to the Los Angeles Times and has written for, among others, the New York Times, National Geographic and the London Review of Books.

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• Verlag: PICADOR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250081637
• ISBN 13: 9781250081636
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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