The Morality of Drones

When people look back at the history of the 21st century, the hum-drum attention paid by the U.S. media to the “drone war” over Pakistan may be viewed as something of an inflection point. America, somewhat past its height in terms of relative omnipotence, nonetheless retained its lead in automated forms of combat. The guided missiles of the 1960s morphed into cruise missiles in the 1970s, then smart bombs in the late 1980s and, by the turn of the century, Predator drones.

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