List of Drones articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Sends Troops and Drones to Cameroon as Boko Haram Fight Intensifies
The United States' increase in military support to Cameroon comes as Boko Haram intensifies its suicide bombing campaign there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Scalia: I ‘Wouldn’t Be Surprised’ if the Supreme Court Outlaws the Death Penalty
Supreme Court Justice Scalia says the death penalty could soon be ruled unconstitutional.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why R drone operators fleeing the USAF? Yow, pops, becuz they are treated badly!
A study found three major causes for the exodus of drone operators: the well advertised overwork, a service culture with an overt bias toward traditional aviation, and institutional reluctance to plan or provide for these Airmen’s attempts to improve their circumstances.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Want to Smuggle Drugs into Prison? Buy a Drone.
Drones are being used to smuggle contraband into prisons around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pentagon Launching Armed Drones From Turkey
First drones, then U.S. fighter planes, will operate from Turkish bases.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is There a New U.S. Airstrike Policy in East Africa?
U.S. drone strikes in Somalia show a changing fight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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.”
