Globalization, Security and Drones

It is evident over the course of history that human beings have had the ingenuity to create varying ways to kill each other, where death can be wrought in a face-to-face fashion or via the direct result of using weapons in immediate propinquity. In the context of war and violence, the advent of technology has provided an expanded corporeal detachment through the use of projectiles with a sling, a bow, or a rifle. Of course, over the last hundred or so years, this detachment has continued to widen as the modern arteries of violence have attained longer range through the use of planes and cruise missiles and, in recent times, the use of uninhabited aerial weapons (Strawser 2013, 3). As this chapter will illustrate, the continual advancement of these new technologies in theaters of conflict pose immense complications and challenges for international security in the twenty-first century. Controlled remotely from virtually anywhere on the planet, such weapons have come to the fore in the...