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National Bird
2016 · Film · documentary · 92 min
Directed by Sonia Kennebeck
Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections, traumas, and responses—of three American military veterans whose lives have been shaken by the roles they played in this controversial method of attack.
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National Bird [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bird_(film)
"This description fits almost any action that you can perform when you're at war."
Except there is no man in the loop in the kill chain.
"where the maimed survivors of a mistaken drone strike on unarmed civilians in February 2010, which killed 23 people, describe what happened when they were attacked. The juxtaposition of the appallingly gung-ho attitude of the drone operatives, re-enacted from a transcript of the event, and raw footage of the dead bodies" [0]
How do you confirm ground-truth? That truck you targeted with a high statistical chance of having X leader also is surrounded with non-combatants. Eyes on the ground will be responsible and wrestle with this and take responsibility. [1] Even if it's personal.
Death by algorythm, remote control, sanctioned higher up the command chain, does not.
[0] "National Bird review – chilling film reveals truths about drones" ~ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/17/national-bird-review-us-drones-program-tribeca-film-festival
[1] "Into the Fog of War" ~ http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-23/soldier's-story-exposes-serious-flaws-in-deadly-adf-raid/7435548