The Myth of the Safer War

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 10, 2015

William M. Arkin examines why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. In Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare, he argues that security is undermined by an impulse to gather as much data as possible, and that the very endeavor of putting fewer humans in potential danger places everyone in greater danger.

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