DRONE STORIES

While UAVs, those aircraft without a human pilot on board, play a decisive role in the conflicts of our time and are at the centre of the reflections of the staffs of all the major military powers, no global study has been devoted to them. This has been done with this accessible book which answers, beyond purely strategic and tactical questions, the political, legal and sociological questions raised by this major development in the art of warfare. From intelligence to attack and destruction missions, the author shows that drones are today an indispensable tool for any military campaign. By way of example, their weight in the war in Afghanistan or in the Libyan revolution, and particularly in locating Gaddafi, was considerable. Through this unique and founding synthesis, Océane Zubeldia thus draws up the balance sheet of a century of drone history and gives us a glimpse of what the wars of the 21st century will be like.