De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare

Dr James Patton Rogers is the Executive Director of the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University and the NATO Country Director of the Full Spectrum Drone Warfare project, supported by NATO SPS. An expert on drones, disruptive technologies, and the history of weaponry and strategy, James has addressed the UN Security Council in New York and has worked with the UNOCT AND UNCTC. He is currently an expert adviser to the UK Parliament's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drones, a UK MoD Defence Opinion Leader, and a TEDx Speaker. He is the author of Precision: A History of American Warfare (Manchester University Press) and regularly contributes to the Washington Post, the Guardian, New York Times, Newsweek, and Forbes (amongst others). With a PhD from the University of Hull in the UK, he has previously been a fellow of the University of Oxford, Yale University, Stanford University, and was a Visiting Scholar of Loughborough University and the U.S Air Command and Staff College, Air University, USAF. Twitter: @DrJamesRogers.

"Edited by one of the world's leading experts on drone warfare, this is essential reading for all scholars, students, and policymakers concerned with the proliferation of drones."
Anthony King, Professor of Defence and Security Studies and Director of the Strategy and Security Institute, University of Exeter, UK

"An insightful exploration of how drones are reshaping the political, strategic, operational, and tactical dimensions of modern warfare."
Dr Claudio Palestini, Head of NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme and Chair of the NATO Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Working Group

"This is an essential contribution to the fi eld, striking a responsible balance between technical detail on the history and likely future of drone technology, and the human cost and impact when these technologies are used."
Emily Tripp, Director of Airwars

"A first-class and streamlined effort [...] it should be considered the standard handbook-type work in the evolving field of drone warfare studies."
Dr Robert J. Bunker in Small Wars Journal