An argumentation approach to the study of drone warfare and lawfare -- The genealogical origins of heroic anxieties over asymmetrical warfare, aerial bombing, and the "drone syndrome" -- The George W. Bush administration and America's adoption of the drones, 2001-2008 -- Preserving one's honor and one's humanity: mediascapes and Pakistani countervisual critiques of the drone wars -- Humanizing drone pilots, the politics of verticality, and the public legitimation of US drone policies -- The Obama administration's immunization rhetorics, the "dispositional matrix," and the biopolitical expansion of the drone wars -- Futuristic drone fantasies, the responsibility to protect (R2P), and drone proliferation.