Drones - remotely piloted aircraft - operated by the U.S. intelligence and military agencies have been used in the targeted killing of thousands of civilians. The drones kill innocent people because they rely on soldiers who live and work halfway across the world using highly inaccurate computer algorithms, as we describe in Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance. To learn more about why such technologies cannot provide justice, we recommend that you read Drone Inc.: Marketing the Illusion of Precision Killing, which is available on line at this link for free from CorpWatch.
Below is a list of some other resources that complement our book.
Books
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution, Richard Whittle, Henry Holt, 2014
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, Andrew Cockburn, Picador, 2016
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, Medea Benjamin, OR Books, 2013
Sudden Justice, Chris Woods, Oxford University Press, 2015
Objective Troy, Scott Shane, Penguin Random House, 2015
A Theory of the Drone, Grégoire Chamayou, New Press, 2015
Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, Nick Turse, Tom Engelhardt, “Dispatch Books, 2012
Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, 2014
Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare, William Arkin, Little, Brown, 2015
Documentaries
Drone, Tonje Schei, 2014
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars, Robert Greenwald, 2013
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, 2016
Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, 2013
Movies
Good Kill, Andrew Niccol, 2014
Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood, 2015
Drone, Jason Bourque, 2017
Drones, Rick Rosenthal, 2013
Selected articles by the authors
Obama's Last Chance
Inside the Devastation of America's Drone Wars
No Lone Rangers in Drone Warfare
Is Drone Warfare Fraying at the Edges?
Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
The True Costs of Remote Control War
Spies in Africa’s Skies: New Contractors for the Pentagon
Should we allow Nato free rein to attack and kill people?
The CIA’s unaccountable drone war claims another casualty
How lawyers sign off on drone attacks
Drone attack protocol explained – video
The ransoming of Raymond Davis
WikiLeaks v the imperial presidency’s poodle
Iraq war logs: America’s virtual war
The Secret Killers: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373
Operation Breakfast Redux: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969?
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution, Richard Whittle, Henry Holt, 2014
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, Andrew Cockburn, Picador, 2016
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, Medea Benjamin, OR Books, 2013
Sudden Justice, Chris Woods, Oxford University Press, 2015
Objective Troy, Scott Shane, Penguin Random House, 2015
A Theory of the Drone, Grégoire Chamayou, New Press, 2015
Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, Nick Turse, Tom Engelhardt, “Dispatch Books, 2012
Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, 2014
Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare, William Arkin, Little, Brown, 2015
Documentaries
Drone, Tonje Schei, 2014
Unmanned: America's Drone Wars, Robert Greenwald, 2013
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, 2016
Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, 2013
Movies
Good Kill, Andrew Niccol, 2014
Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood, 2015
Drone, Jason Bourque, 2017
Drones, Rick Rosenthal, 2013
Selected articles by the authors
Obama's Last Chance
Inside the Devastation of America's Drone Wars
No Lone Rangers in Drone Warfare
Is Drone Warfare Fraying at the Edges?
Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
The True Costs of Remote Control War
Spies in Africa’s Skies: New Contractors for the Pentagon
Should we allow Nato free rein to attack and kill people?
The CIA’s unaccountable drone war claims another casualty
How lawyers sign off on drone attacks
Drone attack protocol explained – video
The ransoming of Raymond Davis
WikiLeaks v the imperial presidency’s poodle
Iraq war logs: America’s virtual war
The Secret Killers: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373
Operation Breakfast Redux: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969?
