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Never mind, we'll do it ourselves, the inside story of how a team of renegades broke rules, shattered barriers, and launched a drone warfare revolution, Alec Bierbauer and Col. Mark Cooter ; with Michael Marks

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Never mind, we'll do it ourselves, the inside story of how a team of renegades broke rules, shattered barriers, and launched a drone warfare revolution, Alec Bierbauer and Col. Mark Cooter ; with Michael Marks

Language

eng

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Includes index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

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Never mind, we'll do it ourselves

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974699822

Responsibility statement

Alec Bierbauer and Col. Mark Cooter ; with Michael Marks

Sub title

the inside story of how a team of renegades broke rules, shattered barriers, and launched a drone warfare revolution

Summary

"Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves is the character-driven story behind the origins of the Predator drone program and the dawn of unmanned warfare. A firsthand account told by an Air Force team leader and a CIA team leader, Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves takes the reader into the back offices and secret government hangars where the robotic revolution went from a mad scientist idea to a pivotal part of global air power"--Book jacket flap

Table Of Contents

First blood -- How it all began -- Just duct tape and baling wire -- All prices are negotiate -- Showtime -- It's always what you least expect -- Everything comes with a price -- A deadly idea -- The breaking point -- Building a killer -- Connecting the dots -- Unthinkable -- Payback's a bitch -- They grow up so fast -- With everything on the line -- Objects in the rearview mirror -- Postscript: the long and winding road

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Inside story of how a team of renegades broke rules, shattered barriers, and launched a drone warfare revolutionNever mind, we will do it ourselves

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