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• W49373757 abstract "The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military operations is currently among most hotly debated topics in national and international media. While at first few showed interest in this military technology, increasing number of missile carried out via UAVs in remote areas of Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia by United States Armed Forces and CIA has raised public awareness. Today, reports on strikes are published daily; UAV names such as Global Hawk, Predator, or Reaper are on everyone's lips. Criticism of use of unmanned technology has equally gained momentum. Several organizations lobby for complete or partial ban of drones, efforts which have resulted in a discussion on adding a protocol to Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) to ban fully autonomous UAVs. High-ranking members of US defense community have advised caution regarding use of armed drones and propose moratoria on US drone strikes. (1) Drones--unmanned, remotely piloted, aerial vehicles, short UAVs--are now used by armed forces of approximately 70 countries around world. The club of armed UAV holders remains more exclusive; for moment, its members only include Israel, United Kingdom, United States, and most likely China and Iran. This situation, however, is likely to change sooner rather than later with many countries considering procurement of armed drones. The four books reviewed in this essay are all motivated by belief that the precipitous increase in drone use we have witnessed over past few years represents just beginning of proliferation and widespread use of UAVs, across many contexts.2 Disagreement may reign over whether or not this development is positive; however, authors agree on one point: drones are here to stay. Many articles and papers have been written on UAV use, but scholarly debate has been surprisingly slow with academia only getting intensively involved in recent years. Accordingly, this review features works by a journalist, an anti-drone activist, and several academics. Winning Battle but Losing Hearts and Minds--The Importance of Drone Perceptions Perceptions matter, sometimes even more than reality. Drones certainly have a dreadful reputation--even though they may not necessarily deserve it. This is what Brian Glyn Williams tells readers in Predators: The CIA's Drone War on al [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Williams, a professor of Islamic History at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and an expert on history of Middle East, cofounded in 2009 UMass Drone, a research project and open-source online database on attacks carried out via armed drones. (3) With Predators, Williams aims at recording] history of what amounts to an all-out CIA drone war on Taliban and al Qaeda. (4) A historian by training, he claims wanting to stay neutral in emotive drone debate: Proponents and opponents of campaign can do with this story what they will. (5) His neutrality may be debatable; Williams clearly has his own opinion on whether use of drones in counterterrorism is effective. Nevertheless, Predators is recommended reading to those interested in how US counterterrorism efforts in Pakistan and elsewhere have affected civilian populations living in targeted countries. Williams studies impact of missile by US drones in remote regions of world, in particular in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The book is clearly enhanced by Williams's deep knowledge of Pakistani politics and Pashtun tribal areas. He ensures his readers get at least a general notion of its history, emphasizing that FATA has always been an independent entity rather than a proper part of Pakistani state. Williams's main argument has three parts: (1) The US drone in Pakistan are precise and succeed in killing high-value targets and lower-level Taliban operatives (some of whom have plotted against United States and other Western nations); (2) The perception of is very negative in Pakistan and abroad; (3) The drone campaign may ultimately prove counterproductive as it alienates public whose hearts and minds need to be won. …" @default.
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• W49373757 title "Drones, drone strikes, and us policy: the politics of unmanned aerial vehicles" @default.
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