Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins

<i>Kill Chain</i> is the essential history of drone warfare a development in military technology that as Andrew Cockburn demonstrates has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from the White House through the drone command center in Nevada to the skies of Helmand Province.<br><br> The book reveals the powerful interests—military CIA and corporate—that turned the Pentagon away from manned aircraft and boots on the ground to killing by remote control. Cockburn uncovers the technological breakthroughs the revolution in military philosophy and the devastating collateral damage resulting from assassinations allegedly targeted with pinpoint precision.<br><br> Vivid powerful and chilling <i>Kill Chain</i> draws on sources deep in the military and intelligence establishment to lay bare the failure of the modern American way of war.