Thursday, December 8, 2011

The ethics of unmanned vehicle warfare

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has faced criticism over the ethics of the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles as the number of strikes carried out with drones skyrocketed in recent years. The premise for the criticism is that the robotic technology, formally called unmanned aerial vehicles, is a new type of weapon that has killed thousands of people in recent years, so it needs an entirely new ethical framework. But others see it as a new style of weapon, not a new style of warfare. "...continued
     

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