Books by Andrew Cockburn
“Cockburn sees drones as the latest instantiation of a particular strategy that has always been bankrupt.” Read more...
The best books on Drone Warfare
Hugh Gusterson, Anthropologist
Saddam Hussein
by Andrew Cockburn & Patrick Cockburn
A biography of the events of the 1990s. It describes a lot about what went on in Saddam’s regime and very artfully weaves in some reportage that the authors have done themselves. There are also some very good accounts of what Iraq was like during the UN sanctions, when life for Iraqis became very difficult. But what you have to remember with this book and all those written in Saddam’s time is that reliable and accurate information is very hard to come by. To try to make sense of it is very admirable.
Interviews where books by Andrew Cockburn were recommended
The best books on Iraq, recommended by Colin Freeman
The Sunday Telegraph’s chief foreign correspondent on the dangers of being a journalist in the Iraq war. “When a little of group of kids wandered up and said, ‘Hello mister, how are you?’, it was time to leave”
The best books on Drone Warfare, recommended by Hugh Gusterson
The introduction of drones “makes possible perpetual war without costs”, warns the anthropology professor and security expert Hugh Gusterson. Here he selects the best books that examine their ethical, psychological and political impact upon 21st century warfare.
