A history of drones: moral(e) bombing and state terrorism/
AFXENTIOU Afxentis
A history of drones: moral(e) bombing and state terrorism/ Afxentis Afxentiou - 2018
This article argues that an historical investigation of air power makes possible the critique of current regimes of drone surveillance and bombing as a practice of state terrorism. By identifying certain key themes regularly used in terrorism studies for the classification of violence as "terrorism", this article shows that early air power theorists understood military aircraft as essentially instruments of terrorism.
DRONES
TERRORISM--STATE
AIR POWER--THEORY
A history of drones: moral(e) bombing and state terrorism/ Afxentis Afxentiou - 2018
This article argues that an historical investigation of air power makes possible the critique of current regimes of drone surveillance and bombing as a practice of state terrorism. By identifying certain key themes regularly used in terrorism studies for the classification of violence as "terrorism", this article shows that early air power theorists understood military aircraft as essentially instruments of terrorism.
DRONES
TERRORISM--STATE
AIR POWER--THEORY