List of Drones articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Drone Killed My Friend, Warren Weinstein
Instead of using drones to combat men who kidnap aid workers, let's support local movements that seek to prevent the men from taking such actions in the first place.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Illusory precision: Some thoughts on drone strikes after the Weinstein incident
When editors and bookers call wanting a comment on some breaking act of violence, the safe response is this: “I’ll need to wait until the facts are in.” Or: “I don’t want to speculate…” The promise of drones has been that the facts would always be in.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The United States Does Not Know Who It’s Killing
A remorseful acknowledgment of the drone deaths of American civilians is not an acceptable answer for a counterterrorism policy out of control.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Botched U.S. Strike Highlights Risks of Obama’s Drone War
Obama has taken personal responsibility for the strike that killed an American development expert and an Italian aid worker. But the apology raises more questions than it answers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The ‘kill/capture’ approach ain’t working for us: Narratives do better than drones
The “kill/capture” approach to terrorist organizations, from a military perspective, has been relatively successful in removing the head from the snake — top leadership. Since President Obama took office there have been approximately 500 drone strikes and capture operations that have killed or captured over 3,300 terrorists. Yet these operations not only have failed to eliminate al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, they have resulted in the proliferation of violent extremism by directly feeding into the narratives that support it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Anyone in Tokyo Missing a Radioactive Drone?
The curious case of a drone -- carrying a camera and traces of radioactive material -- that landed on the roof of the Japanese prime minister's office.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Will Loretta Lynch’s Approach to Prosecuting Terrorism Look Like?
With people from Minnesota to California to Colorado to New York recently charged or convicted for ties to the Islamic State, it looks like Loretta Lynch is going to be overseeing a lot of terrorism cases when she’s likely confirmed as attorney general.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 AQAP Says Its Religious Leader Was Killed in Yemen Drone Strike
The drone strike comes amid increased fighting in Yemen that has seen AQAP make territorial gains.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How’s That Whole ‘Don’t Do Stupid Shit’ Thing Working Out?
Checking in with America's drone king.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: A Drone Called WANDA
The U.S. military is studying the movement of fish to design the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pentagon Says It Lost Contact With Drone Over Syria
The Syrian government claims to have shot down the unmanned vehicle, a charge Washington denies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The future is here: Drones, kids, and more
As I was lazing on a beach in steamy Puerto Rico on Sunday afternoon, a toy drone zoomed over the sands and then hovered at the end of the beach.
