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Book Review: Out of the Mountains

October 14, 2013 October 15, 2013

By Dan Gettinger A solitary drone flies over a far away mountain valley in Afghanistan operated by a pilot thousands of miles away on a distant base in the Mojave desert. The drone is the icon of remote-controlled warfare. In Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban …

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As Seen from Above: A Review of “Close Up at a Distance”

May 18, 2013 February 21, 2014

Review of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology and Politics by Laura Kurgan (Zone Books). by Dan Gettinger Detractors of military drones claim that the physical distance that separates the pilots from their targets is problematic. Fighting a war by way of satellite link is admittedly a foreign idea, something …