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We kill because we can, from soldiering to assassination in the drone age, Laurie Calhoun

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-361) and indexIncludes filmography (pages 363-365)

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non fiction

We kill because we can

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Laurie Calhoun

from soldiering to assassination in the drone age

We live in an age of drone warfare, where the attacks on targets deemed to be threatening happens remotely. The decisions to kill are made covertly in rooms far away from the target, and we can now kill without being personally present. Killing has become all too easy and convenient. As a result, argues Laurie Calhoun in this provocative book, self-defense has become conflated with outright aggression, and black ops have become the standard military operating procedure. In this remarkable and often-shocking book, Calhoun dissects the moral, psychological, and cultural impact that these drone killings are having on modern society. In We Kill Because We Can she draws powerful, thought-provoking parallels between drone operators and mafia hitmen as well as the Trayvon Martin case and the killing of a teen in Yemen by drone. The result is a timely and provoking analysis of Western foreign policy and its disturbing use of remote-controlled death

Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Find -- 1. Drone Nation -- 2. From Black Ops to Standard Operating Procedure -- 3. The Logic of Targeted Killing -- 4. Lethal Creep -- Part II: Fix -- 5. Strike First, Suppress Questions Later -- 6. The New Banality of Killing -- 7. The Operators -- 8. From Conscience to Oblivion -- Part III: Finish -- 9. Death and Policies -- 10. Death and Taxes -- 11. The Death of Military Virtue -- 12. Tyrants Are as Tyrants Do -- Conclusion -- Postface