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Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins Hardcover – March 10, 2015

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“In this first-rate history, Andrew Cockburn takes readers from the Pentagon's mainframe-driven dreams of the Vietnam War era through today's visions of stealth super-drones, exposing the dark realities of twenty-first-century robotic warfare. Richly informative, superbly researched, and utterly illuminating, Kill Chain shines much-needed light on the shadowy theories and theorists, secret military and intelligence programs, and classified technologies that spawned our current age of remote-controlled assassination.” ―Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything that Moves

“Thisbrilliant book tells us how computers killsoldiers and civilians, andexplains with bone-chilling clarityhow generalship gave way to microchips from Vietnam to Afghanistan. A blood-curdling account of the rise of robot warfare, a great story, and a prophecy to be read and heeded.” ―Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

“A compellingly readable book that not only tells us why drones cannot live up to the overblown expectation of politicians but lucidly explains the vulnerability of intelligence, either robotic or human, better than any book I have ever read.” ―Edward Jay Epstein, author of Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA

“In this riveting book, Cockburn puts the reader in the pilot's seat as kill teams go on their deadly hunts before dashing home for their children's soccer games. Wrapped in enormous secrecy, the only way past the armed guards and cipher-locks and into this new world of Hellfire diplomacy is Cockburn's great new read. Rather than voter IDs, people should prove they have read this book before being allowed to vote in the next election.” ―James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

“It's not just the technology that makes a difference on the modern battlefield. It is, by Harper's Washington editor Cockburn's account, the development of a doctrine that augments--and sometimes replaces--the old order of battle with the notion that enemy leaders are objects fit for assassination, adding a necessarily political dimension to the military one…Sharp-eyed and disturbing, especially Cockburn's concluding assessment that, nourished by an unending flow of money, ‘the assassination machine is here to stay.'” ―Kirkus

“A report that is both enlivening and terribly troubling.” ―Booklist

About the Author

Andrew Cockburn is the Washington Editor of Harper's magazine and the author of many articles and books on national security, including the New York Times Editor's Choice Rumsfeld and The Threat, which destroyed the myth of Soviet military superiority underpinning the Cold War. He is a regular opinion contributor to the Los Angeles Times and has written for, among others, the New York Times, National Geographic and the London Review of Books.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0805099263
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Henry Holt and Co.; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition (March 10, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780805099263
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805099263
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.27 x 1.04 x 9.55 inches
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Born in London shortly after World `War II, I grew up in rural Ireland, went to school in Scotland (where we trained every week to be junior officers in the next war) and Oxford, and thereafter entered into the family trade of journalism. After spells on Fleet Street - the Evening Standard and Daily Mail - I joined World in Action, a great investigative documentary show on British independent tv., where I began taking an interest in defense issues - very undercovered in the UK. Moved to the US in 1979, and in 1982 published The Threat - Inside the Soviet Military Machine. A national best-seller, the book revealed that the Soviets were not an awesome threat, as we had been told for decades by the western defense lobby. I showed that the troops were ill-trained, and badly equipped, all to the benefit of their military-industrial hierarchy. My argument, denounced at the time in Washington and Moscow, was proven absolutely correct following the collapse of the USSR. Since then, I have written hundreds of articles on defense and other topics, several books -- see below - many documentaries, and co-produced the 1997 action miovie The Peacemaker starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. Living in Washington, where I am currently the Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine, means I have a front row seat to watch the headquarters, the imperial court, of a declining but still rich and powerful empire. It is an endlessly fascinating spectacle, if sometimes horrifying. .

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