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Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities SeriesPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817389116
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic AgeLOC classification:
  • UG1242
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. An Argumentation Approach to the Study of Drone Warfare and Lawfare -- 2. The Genealogical Origins of Heroic Anxieties over Asymmetrical Warfare, Aerial Bombing, and the "Drone Syndrome" -- 3. The George W. Bush Administration and America's Adoption of the Drones, 2001-2008 -- 4. Preserving One's Honor and One's Humanity: Mediascapes and Pakistani Countervisual Critiques of the Drone Wars -- 5. Humanizing Drone Pilots, the Politics of Verticality, and the Public Legitimation of US Drone Policies -- 6. The Obama Administration's Immunization Rhetorics, the "Dispositional Matrix," and the BiopoliticalExpansion of the Drone Wars -- 7. Futuristic Drone Fantasies, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and Drone Proliferation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. An Argumentation Approach to the Study of Drone Warfare and Lawfare -- 2. The Genealogical Origins of Heroic Anxieties over Asymmetrical Warfare, Aerial Bombing, and the "Drone Syndrome" -- 3. The George W. Bush Administration and America's Adoption of the Drones, 2001-2008 -- 4. Preserving One's Honor and One's Humanity: Mediascapes and Pakistani Countervisual Critiques of the Drone Wars -- 5. Humanizing Drone Pilots, the Politics of Verticality, and the Public Legitimation of US Drone Policies -- 6. The Obama Administration's Immunization Rhetorics, the "Dispositional Matrix," and the BiopoliticalExpansion of the Drone Wars -- 7. Futuristic Drone Fantasies, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and Drone Proliferation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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