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Meet James
James Patton Rogers is the Executive Director of the Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University. An expert on international security policy, geopolitics, and disruptive technologies, he is regarded as “one of the world’s leading experts on drone warfare”, advising the United Nations and NATO on the threats posed by the global proliferation of high-tech weapons systems. James regularly writes for the Washington Post, TIME, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and has previously worked with the BBC, Netflix, History Channel, and CNN (among others). He is the author of two books and is currently writing ‘Drones What You Need to Know’ (with Sarah Kreps) for Oxford University Press and his first non-fiction trade book, ‘War Path: The Rise of Drones and Lethal Autonomous Weapons’ for Bonnier.
Praise for James Patton Rogers
“James Patton Rogers’ history of precision warfare is a veritable tour de force, extraordinarily well researched and written in ways that will make it imperative reading for military historians and strategists but accessible and enriching for the public as a whole.”
— Sarah Kreps, author of Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know
”Patton Rogers’s in-depth historical study shows exactly why precision bombing was far from easy for us to achieve during the Second World War and why it remains difficult today.”
— Charles J. ‘Chuck’ Richardson, Second World War veteran and author of 35 Missions to Hell and Back
”Patton Rogers’s book plugs the gap in the historiography of America’s development of precision air power, demonstrating how the contested nuclear strategy through the 1950s and 1960s influenced the evolution of America’s precision ethos. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of American airpower.”
— Christopher J. Fuller, author of See It/Shoot It: The Secret History of the CIA’s Lethal Drone Program
