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This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance, and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation; and theorize drones' relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation, and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, this book extends the critical study of drones while expanding the public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments of war.

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What impact will drone technology have on the patterns of war and peace in the next century ? Will drones produce a more peaceful world because they reduce risk to pilots, or will the prospect of clean, remote warfare lead governments to engage in more conflicts ? Will drones begin to replace humans on the battlefield or will they empower soldiers and peacekeepers to act more precisely and humanely in crisis zones ? How will terrorist organizations turn this technology back on the governments that fight them ? How will drones change surveillance at war - and at home ? As drones come into the hands of new actors - foreign governments, law enforcement, terrorist organizations, humanitarian organizations and even UN peacekeepers, it is even more important to understand what kind of world they might produce. This book explores how the unique features of drone technology alter the strategic choices of governments and non-state actors alike by transforming their risk calculations and expanding their goals on and off the battlefield. By changing what these actors are willing and capable of doing, drones are quietly altering the dynamics of wars, humanitarian crises and peacekeeping missions while generating new risks to security and to privacy. An essential guide to a potentially disruptive force in modern world politics, this book argues that the mastery of drone technology will become central to the ways that governments and non-state actors seek power and influence in the coming decades.

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This paper discusses the findings of an integrated team that formed to identify current IEEE unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) standards and possible research gaps. The team identified the list of standards published by the IEEE and validated whether the standards had been captured correctly. The team also identified research gaps in the current standards and, hence, possible future UAS standards development activities. As part of the effort, the team further identified multiple UAS standards developed for communications and networking, operations and applications, sensors, payload interfaces, and power research areas. The team could not identify any specific research gaps in the current standards development activities but did note a few IEEE standards development projects that need future research. Overall, participants found few general research gaps. In the future, the team should expand to include members from all unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) working groups to better capture research gaps.

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