This well-researched, highly readable and highly disturbing book is essential reading for anyone who has watched with increasing concern the rise of robotic warfare in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. An absorbing account of the range of technological, political and socio-cultural factors that have converged to stimulate a “paradigm shift” in the nature of warfare over the last two decades – a shift which underlies the rapidly escalating dominance of armed drones in combat – it is also a…