| Portion of title |
Drones, data, and the illusion of perfect warfare |
| Contents |
Search of the wind -- Dead reckoning -- Fire and forget -- Trojan spirit -- Dialogue of the deaf -- Another plane -- Inherit the wind -- My back is killing me -- The machine builds -- The split -- The explosion -- Flock of birds -- Mind-set over mind -- Gilgamesh calling -- Beyond the speed of war -- X-men -- Ring of fiber -- Command post of the future -- Oh. Obama was elected -- Pattern of life -- Warka -- Epilogue: The event. |
| Abstract |
Unmanned is an examination of why 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 human in potential danger places everyone in greater danger. Wars officially end, but the Data Machine lives on forever. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-380) and index. |
| LCCN | 2015931408 |
| ISBN | 9780316323352 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0316323357 (hardcover) |
