Combo of Drone Warfare : Killing By Remote Control and The Thistle And The Drone : How Americas War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam(Set of 2 Books)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.'A groundbreaking and startling book ... It should be required reading for those working in the media policy-making and education-and indeed for anybody who wishes to understand our tragically polarized world'-Karen Armstrong The United States declared war on terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. More than ten years later the results are decidedly mixed. In The Thistle and the Drone Akbar Ahmed reveals a tremendously important yet largely unrecognized adverse effect of these campaigns: they actually have exacerbated the already-broken relationship between central governments and the tribal societies on their periphery. Drawing on forty case studies this groundbreaking analysis demonstrates that it is the conflict between the centre and the periphery and the involvement of the United States that has fuelled the war on terror. No one is immune to this violence - neither school children nor congregations in their houses of worship. Battered by military or drone strikes one day and suicide bombers the next people on the periphery say 'Every day is like 9/11 for us.'First book on drone warfare the new warfare system affecting the Indian subcontinent specially Pakistan and Afghanistan Weeks after the 2002 American invasion of Afghanistan Medea Benjamin visited that country. There on the ground talking with victims of the strikes she learned the reality behind the 'precision bombs' on which US forces were becoming increasingly reliant. Now with the use of drones escalating at a meteoric pace Benjamin has written this book as a call to action: 'It is meant to wake a sleeping public' she writes 'lulled into thinking that drones are good that targeted killings are making us safer.' Drone Warfare is a comprehensive look at the growing menace of robotic warfare with an extensive analysis of who is producing the drones where they are being used who 'pilots' these unmanned planes who are the victims and what are the legal and moral implications. In vivid readable style the book also looks at what activists lawyers and scientists are doing to ground the drones and ways to move forward. 'In reality' writes Benjamin 'the assassinations the US is carrying out via drones will come back to haunt it when others start doing the same thing - to the Americans.'