Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
Author(s): William M. Arkin
Why do seemingly successful wars never seem to end? The problem centers on drones, now accumulated in the thousands, the front end of a spying and killing machine that is disconnected from either security or safety. Drones, however, are only part of the problem. William Arkin shows that security is actually undermined by an impulse to gather as much data as possible, the appetite and the theory both skewed towards the notion that no amount is too much. And yet the very endeavor of putting fewer humans in potential danger in fact places everyone in greater danger. Wars officially end, but the Data Machine lives on forever.
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William Arkin, national security consultant to the New York Times, is one of America's premier military experts, having served in Army intelligence in West Berlin during the Cold War. He has written more than a dozen books and been at the center of countless exposes. At the Washington Post he conceived and co-authored the landmark "Top Secret America" investigation, and co-wrote the national bestseller of the same name. He is also the author of American Coup. He lives in Vermont.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown & Company
- : Little, Brown & Company
- : 01 July 2015
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United States
- : 01 September 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : William M. Arkin
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 327.12
- : 256
- : 8-pp. b/w photo insert
