Terörizme çare olarak bir öldürücü silah: ABD'nin dronlaştırılmış savaşının söylemsel yapısı

In the last years, drones have become the successors of the American soldiers and the target killings have become determinant as a counterterrorism strategy of the U.S. An increase in eccentric rate of drone strikes after Obama became the U.S president resulted in an immediate need for a rationale to legitimize the 'dronified' warfare. While Obama administration – and drone skeptics as well – mainly tend to elucidate the legality, morality and effectiveness (LME) of drone strikes, this paper focuses on discourses of terrorism, geopolitics and realism, which serve as foothold in legitimization of the dronified warfare. By tackling these discourses it is possible to understand how the Obama administration vindicated the drone program in front of the Americans. As the dronified warfare proliferates it is important to comprehend properly the discourses used by the U.S. – as a pioneer of this program- which indubitably will be used and reformulated by other states.