The Hand Behind Unmanned: Origins of the US Autonomous Military Arsenal
The Hand Behind Unmanned, coauthored by Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald, is the latest entry in the Oxford University Press’s "Bridging the Gap" series. Schneider is the Hargrove Hoover Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and the director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative; she had previously served as an assistant professor at the US Naval War College. Macdonald is an assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver with publications in War on the Rocks, Lawfare, Foreign Affairs, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Their book aims to explain the historical development of US unmanned systems and, more ambitiously, the beliefs and service identities that have shaped what the Department of Defense actually buys and fields.