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Killing without Heart
2013
Overview
The days of large force-on-force engagements with conventional
fielded armies are seemingly gone. Today's persistent conflict,
conducted among civilian populations and fought by small bands of
combatants, will be remembered for this alteration in the tapestry
of war and for the first large-scale use of unmanned vehicles.
According to M. Shane Riza, this \"war among the people\" and the
trend toward robotic warfare has outpaced deliberate thought and
debate about the deep moral issues affecting justice and the
warrior spirit. The pace of change, Riza explains, is
revolutionizing warfare in vitally important ways. A key
development is risk inversion, a shifting of risk away from
technologically superior combatants and onto all noncombatants. For
the first time in history, warriors are not the ones primarily
shouldering the dangers and horrors of battle. This inversion and
the search for impunity undermine the idea that how we win actually
matters as much as winning itself. Though warfare involves human
fallibility, there are ethics in striving that give meaning to war
on a personal level. In just war theory, this sense of purpose
imposes a practical limit on what belligerents can and should do to
their opponents. Contemporary robotic warfare, however, may remove
combatants' moral equivalence and it adversely affects the mutual
respect upon which to build a lasting peace. Killing without
Heart postulates today's technological wars of combatant
impunity may ultimately render unmanned weapons useless with the
realization that robotic lethality undermines our strategic
objectives. Riza has crafted a timely examination of the moral,
ethical, and legal implications of the U.S. military's future
course toward armed unmanned and autonomous robotic warfare. This
is a book that will change the way we look at warfare-both for
today and well into the future.
Publisher
Potomac Books,University of Nebraska Press,Potomac Books, Incorporated
Subject
ISBN
9781612346137, 1612346138
