Drone Warfare
is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing—and
most secretive—fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot
warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones;
ten years later, it had a fleet of nearly 7,500, and the US Air Force
now trains more drone “pilots” than bomber and fighter pilots
combined. Drones are already a $5 billion business in the US alone.
The human cost? Drone strikes have killed more than 200 children
alone in Pakistan and Yemen.
CODEPINK
and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin provides the first
extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are
being used, who controls these unmanned planes, and what are the
legal and moral implications of their use. In vivid, readable style,
this book also looks at what activists, lawyers, and scientists
across the globe are doing to ground these weapons. Benjamin argues
that the assassinations we are carrying out from the air will come
back to haunt us when others start doing the same thing—to us.