Part 1: Approaches to the Study of Drone Warfare
2 What Is Drone Warfare?
Abstract
At one level, ‘Drone Warfare’ is the deployment of drone technologies to further the political, strategic, and/or tactical ambitions of an actor in conflict. Nevertheless, with over 20 years of modern drone warfare behind us – wars that have reshaped our culture, our politics, our armed forces, and the lives of thousands – this chapter takes a deeper dive into the concept and asks “does the term drone warfare help us understand more than just the weapon itself?” By placing drones within the broader history of airpower, war, and barbarism, this chapter argues that drone warfare is indeed more than a technological trend and a novel ...
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