"Though the United States remains the lead actor in terms of possessing and using armed drones, the rest of the world is quickly catching up.
Drones and the Law: International Responses to Rapid Drone Proliferation presents innovative solutions to the controversial issues raised by the drones and a critical assessment of its growing use as a weapon system in modern warfare and ...
John Blaxland is a Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at The Australian National University. A former Military Intelligence Officer, his publications include The US-Thai Alliance and Asian International ...
Douglas Dillon Fellow Micah Zenko analyzes the potentially serious consequences, both at home and abroad, of a lightly overseen drone program and makes recommendations for improving its governance.
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.
Horowitz and Fuhrmann, Droning on, 13. 142. Horowitz and Fuhrmann, Droning on, 13. 143. Avery Plaw and Joa ̃o Reis, ''Learning to Live with Drones: Answering Jeremy Waldron and the Neutralist Critique,'' Journal of Military Ethics ...
... or imminent attack” than had been stated in public speeches.55 It was this question of targeting Americans that Senator Rand Paul used as the fulcrum for his filibuster of John Brennan's nomination as Director of the CIA.
The ability to extract resources from society, particularly tax revenue, drives the projection of military power. ... enjoy a significant military advantage in long- standing rivalries (see also DiGiuseppe 2015a). On the other hand, ...
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 ...
Indeed, out of more than three thousand casualties resulting from US drone strikes,19 the killing of four Americans dominated the 2013 nomination hearings for CIA Director John Brennan.
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.