Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins - Couverture souple

Cockburn, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784782696 ISBN 13 : 9781784782696

Editeur : Verso, 2016

Synopsis

Kill Chain is the essential history of drone warfare, a development in military technology that, as Andrew Cockburn demonstrates, has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from the White House, through the drone command center in Nevada, to the skies of Helmand Province. The book reveals the powerful interests—military, CIA and corporate—that turned the Pentagon away from manned aircraft and boots on the ground to killing by remote control. Cockburn uncovers the technological breakthroughs, the revolution in military philosophy, and the devastating collateral damage resulting from assassinations allegedly targeted with pinpoint precision. Vivid, powerful and chilling, Kill Chain draws on sources deep in the military and intelligence establishment to lay bare the failure of the modern American way of war.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784782696
• ISBN 13: 9781784782696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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