Enemark, Christian.

Armed drones and the ethics of war military virtue in a post-heroic age / [electronic resource] : Christian Enemark. - Oxon : Routledge, 2014. - 1 online resource (ix, 150 p.) - War, conflict and ethics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Post-heroic war and armed drones -- 3. Drones and the war threshold -- 4. Conducting drone warfare : the case of Pakistan -- 5. Radical asymmetry and the moral equality of combatants -- 6. Drone operators and the warrior ethos -- 7. Autonomous drones and post-human war -- 8. Conclusion.

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