List of Drones articles
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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.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s semi-stealthy long-range drone
Peter Singer says it is a big deal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Good Kill,’ Bad Movie
Ethan Hawke and director Andrew Niccol talk to FP about their new movie on drones. Too bad it gets so much wrong.
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