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Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins
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English - June 15, 2015 16:43 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Drones are widely used in the 'war on terror'. Unmanned airplanes with hellfire missiles on board, controlled from another country, they kill from the sky.
Drones and drone warfare are highly controversial - on ethical, legal and utilitarian grounds - as Andrew Cockburn explains in this conversation with Craig Barfoot about his latest book Kill Chain. Cockburn is an assiduous investigator and delivers a trenchant critique of the people he call the 'High Tech Assassins'.
Picture: Peace Quilt
Drones are widely used in the ‘war on terror’. Unmanned airplanes with hellfire missiles on board, controlled from another country, they kill from the sky.
Drones and drone warfare are highly controversial – on ethical, legal and utilitarian grounds – as Andrew Cockburn explains in this conversation with Craig Barfoot about his latest book Kill Chain. Cockburn is an assiduous investigator and delivers a trenchant critique of the people he call the ‘High Tech Assassins’.
Picture: Peace Quilt