On Killing Remotely

The Psychology of Killing with Drones

Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Phelps (USMC Ret.) (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2021
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-62829-7 (ISBN)

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A vital and timely expansion of Lt Col Dave Grossman's perennial bestseller On Killing. This new book reveals and explores the costs-to individual soldiers and to society-of the way we wage war today.

Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from armor to in the Middle Ages to nerve gas in World War I to weapons of mass destruction in our own time, the rules have constantly evolved. Today, when killing the enemy can seem palpably risk-free and tantamount to playing a violent video game, what constitutes warfare? What is the effect of remote combat on individual soldiers? And what are the unforeseen repercussions that could affect us all?

Lt Col Wayne Phelps, former commander of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft unit, and Lt Col Dave Grossman, author of the landmark work On Killing and a leading scholar of the effects of killing on the human psyche, address these questions and many others as they tell the story of the men and women of today's "chair force." Exploring the ethics of remote military engagement, the misconceptions about PTSD among RPA operators, and the specter of military weaponry controlled by robots, their book is an urgent and compelling reminder that it should always be difficult to kill another human being lest we risk losing what makes us human.

Lt Col Kenneth Wayne Phelps III (USMC, Retired) served five deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2012. His military career coincided with the escalating use of drones as weapons, and in the two years prior to his retirement in 2018 he served as commanding officer of four Unmanned Aircraft System teams active abroad in fighting violent extremist organizations. Lt Col Dave Grossman (US Army, Retired) is an internationally recognized scholar, writer, soldier, and speaker. He is one of the world's foremost experts in the field of human aggression, the roots of violence, and violent crime. He is a former West Point psychology professor and is currently the director of the Warrior Science Group.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2021
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 236 mm
Gewicht	591 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-316-62829-8 / 0316628298
ISBN-13	978-0-316-62829-7 / 9780316628297
Zustand	Neuware