The Age of Hyper-Power: Military Drones Will Upend World

Political power arises from the barrel of a gun. Such, at any rate, is Mao Zedong’s most famous dictum. Accomplished poet, keen historian, and a master strategist, he was in this instance only half-right – for political power arises not only from the barrel of the gun, but from the capacity to make that gun, and to motivate those who would hold it.