UNMANNED can be an in-depth study of why seemingly successful wars never appear to end. The problem centers around drones, now accumulated in the hundreds, leading end of the spying and eliminating machine that’s disconnected from either protection or safety.

Drones, however, are just area of the issue. William Arkin demonstrates security is in fact undermined by an impulse to assemble as very much data as is possible, the appetite and the theory both skewed towards the idea that no amount is too much. And yet the very endeavor of putting fewer individual in potential danger areas everyone in greater risk. Wars officially end, however the Data Machine lives on permanently.

Throughout his career, Arkin has revealed powerful secrets of so-called national security and intelligence. Now he proceeds that tradition. The most alarming publication about warfare in years, UNMANNED is essential reading for anybody who cares about the continuing future of mankind.