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WASHINGTON 鈥� Amazon.com has named 乐鱼 体育 Global Fellow Richard Whittle鈥檚 new book Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution one of September鈥檚 fifteen best new history books.

Predator, which Henry Holt and Company will release Sept. 16, is described by publishing world bellwether Kirkus Reviews magazine as "endlessly interesting and full of implication."

Kirkus gave Predator a "starred review," reserved for "books of exceptional merit."

Based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews, Whittle鈥檚 book traces the origins of the Predator drone from its invention in a former Israeli aeronautical engineer鈥檚 Los Angeles garage to its arming by the Air Force and employment for the CIA in Afghanistan in the first intercontinental drone strikes.

"Whittle鈥檚 account comes to a pointed conclusion: drone technology has already changed how we die, but what remains to be seen is how it 鈥榤ay change the way people live,鈥� " Kirkus said.

and posted by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, confirm key facts about the Predator's transformation by the Air Force into the first armed drone used to stalk and kill individual enemies by remote control at intercontinental range.

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