Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Drones Are Not a Technology, They Are Human Decisions
M is the ways in which there is so much investment, m, both of human time as well as money and resources that really create something like the drone. And this is not something that sort of suddenly evolves technologically, but is the result of political and economic decisions. I think also whe the things is really important with the historical materials, particularly because many of these projects were considered failures. They were cancelled. They were kept secret. The drones crashed and fell. There wase enormous challenges in terms of getting the systems to a, to operate.
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