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The Psychology of Killing with Drones
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A “can’t-miss for anyone interested in current military affairs", On Killing Remotely reveals and explores the costs - to individual soldiers and to society - of the way we wage war today (Kirkus Reviews, starred).
Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from armor to in the Middle Ages to nerve gas in World War I to weapons of mass destruction in our own time, the rules have constantly evolved. Today, when killing the enemy can seem palpably risk-free and tantamount to playing a violent video game, what constitutes warfare? What is the effect of remote combat on individual soldiers? And what are the unforeseen repercussions that could affect us all?
Lt Col Wayne Phelps, former commander of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft unit, addresses these questions and many others as he tells the story of the men and women of today’s “chair force”. Exploring the ethics of remote military engagement, the misconceptions about PTSD among RPA operators, and the specter of military weaponry controlled by robots, his book is an urgent and compelling reminder that it should always be difficult to kill another human being lest we risk losing what makes us human.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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For nearly a decade, Brett Velicovich was at the center of America's new warfare: using unmanned aerial vehicles - drones - to take down the world's deadliest terrorists across the globe. One of an elite handful in the entire military with the authority to select targets and issue death orders, he worked in concert with the full human and technological network of American intelligence - assets, analysts, spies, informants - and the military's elite operatives to stalk, capture, and eliminate high-value targets in al-Qaeda and ISIS.
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So Few Protecting the Many!
- By Gerald J. Vogt on 09-11-17
By: Brett Velicovich, and others
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Confirmation Bias
- Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's Death to Justice Kavanaugh
- By: Carl Hulse
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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The Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times presents a richly detailed, news-breaking, and conversation-changing look at the unprecedented political fight to fill the Supreme Court seat made vacant by Antonin Scalia’s death - using it to explain the paralyzing and all but irreversible dysfunction across all three branches in the nation’s capital.
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Bias is right
- By Shelle Houser on 07-07-19
By: Carl Hulse
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Above the Line
- Living and Leading with Heart
- By: Stephen Klemich, Mara Klemich
- Narrated by: David Linski
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In Above the Line, they argue that that the quality of your life flows from the attitudes of your heart. Wise, compassionate, and practical Above the Line explores the deep, fundamental drivers of human behavior that exist within your heart - the seat of your character. It reveals that all of these behaviors can be explained by four heart-based principles - humility, love, pride, and fear - which influence every facet of our life, for better or worse.
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Too many acronyms
- By Amazon Customer on 03-06-24
By: Stephen Klemich, and others
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The Art and Science of Connection
- Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier
- By: Kasley Killam
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social health—the part of wellbeing that comes from feeling connected—to truly flourish. Exercise. Eat a balanced diet. Go to therapy. Most wellness advice is focused on achieving and maintaining good physical and mental health. But Harvard-trained social scientist and pioneering social health expert Kasley Killam reveals that this approach is missing a vital component: human connection.
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Let’s Connect
- By Hall Johnson on 12-02-24
By: Kasley Killam
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The Unfathomable Ascent
- How Hitler Came to Power
- By: Peter Ross Range
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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On the night of January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich chancellery in Berlin, bursting with joy. The moment seemed unbelievable, even to Hitler. After an improbable political journey that came close to faltering on many occasions, his march to power had finally succeeded. While the path of Hitler's rise has been told in books covering larger portions of his life, no previous work has focused solely on his eight-year climb to rule: 1925-1933.
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The best account of Hitler’s rise to power.
- By Deal W. Hudson on 08-26-20
By: Peter Ross Range
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They Called Us ""Lucky""
- The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
- By: Ruben Gallego, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: Ruben Gallego, Stephen Graybill
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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At first, they were “Lucky Lima”. Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.
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My perspective as a 3/25 insider...
- By R-N on 06-25-22
By: Ruben Gallego, and others
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The Last Dive
- A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths
- By: Bernie Chowdhury
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
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Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under 230 feet of water, only a half day's mission from New York Harbor. In doing so they paid the ultimate price in their quest for fame.
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This book is terrible
- By Will O. on 08-21-18
By: Bernie Chowdhury
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What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You and Your Father Didn't Know
- Advanced Relationship Skills for Better Communication and Lasting Intimacy
- By: John Gray
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The rules of relationships have changed. In our generational movement toward wholeness, women want to be more than mothers and homemakers, and men aspire to loving relationships rather than simply being warriors and work machines. The age-old distinctions between male and female roles have blurred, and the rules of relationships have not yet caught up, creating confusion and frustration.
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Never had something so informative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- By JKM on 11-09-17
By: John Gray
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Trouble Boys
- The True Story of the Replacements
- By: Bob Mehr
- Narrated by: Mary Lucia
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
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Written with the participation of the group's key members, including reclusive singer-songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, and the family of late guitarist Bob Stinson, Trouble Boys is a deeply intimate and nuanced portrait, exposing the primal factors and forces - addiction, abuse, fear - that would shape one of the most brilliant and notoriously self-destructive bands of all time.
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Oh Sister!
- By Cherrybomb on 06-29-17
By: Bob Mehr
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Welcome to Dunder Mifflin
- The Ultimate Oral History of The Office
- By: Brian Baumgartner, Ben Silverman
- Narrated by: Brian Baumgartner, Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Join the entire Dunder Mifflin gang on a journey back to Scranton: Here's the hilarious inside story of how a little show that barely survived its first season became the most watched series in the universe.
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like the podcast
- By B A on 11-20-21
By: Brian Baumgartner, and others
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Harbingers
- What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal About Rising Threats to American Democracy
- By: Timothy J. Heaphy
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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A crucial, clear-eyed assessment of what connects the two most influential moments of political violence in recent American history, and where we go from here.
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Great book!
- By Jan Pack on 01-29-25
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But Everyone Feels This Way
- How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
- By: Paige Layle
- Narrated by: Paige Layle
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Paige Layle was normal. She lived in the countryside with her mom, dad, and brother Graham. She went to school, hung out with friends, and all the while everything seemed so much harder than it needed to be. A break in routine threw off the whole day. If her teacher couldn't answer “why” in class, she dissolved into tears, unable to articulate her own confusion or explain her lack of control.
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I FEEL SO SEEN!! 😭
- By Sharon Phillips on 08-20-24
By: Paige Layle
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How to Win an Information War
- The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
- By: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, crowing victory and smearing his enemies as liars and manipulators over his frequent radio speeches, blasted out on loudspeakers and into homes. British claims that Hitler was dangerous had little impact against this wave of disinformation. Except for the broadcasts of someone called Der Chef, a German who questioned Nazi doctrine, and most importantly, a character created by the British propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer, a unique weapon in the war.
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A charming but responsible take on a key issue
- By Catherine Spiller on 07-23-24
Eye Opening & Thought Provoking
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EVERY decision maker of the military MUST READ!
Great compilation of facts
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This book was a deep look into RPA culture up to the present day. However, I was disappointed by the echo of Grossman's anti-video game rhetoric.
A thorough look into RPA culture.
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Absolute must read
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Having recently reread Dave Grossman's "On Killing,"; this book takes the next step by discussing the emotional and physical stress amplified by today's remote technologies. I would highly recommend this book to family and friends of anyone associated with unmanned systems. Even if not associated with RPAs, this is still an eye-opener for all of humanity.
Easy read, that’s insightful
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perfection
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