Has technological progress made war more humane?: Precision Guided Munitions and the Monopoly of Discrimination - Couverture souple

Andersen, Soren

 
9783640569243: Has technological progress made war more humane?: Precision Guided Munitions and the Monopoly of Discrimination
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3640569245 ISBN 13 : 9783640569243
Editeur : Grin Verlag, 2010

Synopsis

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - War and Peace, Military, University of Manchester (Political Science), language: English, abstract: The following paper will examine one of the more recently militarily implemented technological advances, namely precision guided munitions (PGMs), which have become an integral part of the strategy of today's undisputed technological forerunner in military hardware, the U.S. Armed Forces. This technology uses both high-end military technology as well as civilian technology, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) to navigate by. One of the aims of this paper is to show how these changes in technology is an indicator of a more humane focus on "our" soldier, i.e. a decreasing willingness to put these soldiers' life on the line. It will be argued that the use of such weaponry as PGMs, seemingly, in a techno-fetishist way, has made war more humane, but that the rhetoric surrounding them also has had the effect of privileging the wielders of these in a highly asymmetrical way.

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Éditeur
Grin Verlag
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3640569245
ISBN 13 
9783640569243
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
20
Coordonnées du fabricant
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