List of Drones articles
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A French military officer, pilots an Israeli Harfang drone, bought by the French army and used in the Operation Barkhane, an anti-terrorist operation in the Sahel, inside the Drone command center, on June 9, 2015 in the French army base in Nianey, Niger. AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE DESMAZES (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images) Death From Above
Emily Schneider reviews two new books about the U.S. drone program, Sudden Justice and Kill Chain, that, read together, inform our understanding of U.S. drone policy in new ways.
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A US "Predator" drone passes overhead at a forward operating base near Kandahar on January 1, 2009. France is the fourth-largest contributor to the international military force in Afghanistan with more than 3,000 troops deployed around Kabul and in forward bases in the east of the country. AFP PHOTO/Joel SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images) Exclusive: U.S. Operates Drones From Secret Bases in Somalia
Two decades after “Black Hawk Down,” U.S. special operations forces are back in East Africa’s most troubled nation. FP provides a rare window into their shadowy operations.
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GettyImages-84155725crop Al Qaeda Claims Western Hostages Killed in U.S. Drone Strikes Converted to Islam
Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto were killed in a drone strike while held captive in Pakistan.
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GettyImages-143566152_6-16 Can Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Survive the Death of Its Leader?
The terror franchise’s fate hangs in the balance following the U.S. drone strike that killed Nasir al-Wuhayshi.
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WMCH_Drone Why America may lose the commercial drone war before we realize there is one
“American firms are being lured abroad by the more flexible regulatory frameworks of foreign governments. Google is testing package delivery drone technology in Australia. Amazon is doing the same in Canada. Airware is busy selling its products to drone companies in Australia and Europe. Meanwhile, a company called DJI, based in Shenzhen, China, now dominates the world market for smaller, lower-cost commercial drones.”
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GettyImages-456058301 Victims of U.S. Special Operations Raids Gone Wrong Are Lucky to Get a Sheep
The families of two men mistakenly killed by a U.S. drone want Obama to apologize. But U.S. law doesn't require the U.S. government to do anything to acknowledge it.
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A U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 513, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., awaits as a MQ-1 Predator passes by at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., Nov. 4, 2008. The Marine Attack Squadron 513, which comprises of mission ready Harriers, are executing joint and high altitude forward base operations alongside the MQ-1 Predators in preparation for deployment to Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.) Can drone operators get PTSD?
PTSD today is an incredibly popular diagnosis, one of those rarest of instances where a mental health disorder suffers from a kind of positive stigma.
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A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter, with an image of the US flag sewn onto his shirt sleeve, stands next to an ambulance destroyed due to an improvised explosive device (IED) in Hossein, during the clashes on the road to Jalawla, on August 23, 2014. The United States launched an air campaign against IS in Iraq on April 8, and has since carried out more than 90 strikes that have largely been in support of Kurdish forces in the north, drawing calls for operations elsewhere in the country. AFP PHOTO / JM LOPEZ (Photo credit should read JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) For Generals Fighting the Islamic State, a Sense of Déjà Vu
The military is still facing the same problems in Iraq it has paid billions of dollars to fix over the past decade.
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Air_Force_Flag_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China.svg China’s semi-stealthy long-range drone
Peter Singer says it is a big deal.
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canadian soldiers CROPPED Know Thy Enemy, and the Future of Memorial Day
How will warfare change when we know our foes by name, face, and DNA?
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TO GO WITH STORY BY KATHY KATAYI AND JUNIOR KANNAH This picture taken on January 22, 2014 shows a traffic robot cop on Triomphal boulevard of Kinshasa at the crossing of Asosa, Huileries and Patrice Lubumba streets. Two human-like robots were recently installed here to help tackle the hectic traffic usually experienced in the area. The prototypes are equipped with four cameras that allow them to record traffic flow, the information is then transmitted to a center where traffic infractions can be analyzed. The team behind the new robots are a group of Congolese engineers based at the Kinshasa Higher Institute of Applied Technique, known by its French acronym, ISTA. AFP PHOTO / JUNIOR D. KANNAH (Photo credit should read Junior D. Kannah/AFP/Getty Images) In Defense of Killer Robots
Hold on there, technophobe hippies. When it comes to “doing no harm,” robots are a hell of a lot better than humans.
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001 Mission Unstoppable: Why Is the CIA Running America’s Foreign Policy?
From drone strikes to prison torture, the CIA has been pulling the strings of U.S. foreign policy since 9/11. And if history is a guide, the agency will be calling the shots in the Middle East for years to come.
