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Drone Quotes
Hard questions about drones, precision, and modern war.
These quotes trace how drone technology reshaped modern warfare, from military branches racing to adapt to unmanned aircraft, to hard questions about precision strikes and their human cost. One line weighs armed drones against land mines as tools of a targeted killing program, without flinching from the tradeoffs.
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The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.
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As far back as 2008, the Canadian Forces brass was explicit: drones with 'all-weather precision strike capabilities' were a 'requirement' for Canada's overseas operations.
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Armed drones have become Barack Obama's way to engage in terrorist-infested hellholes without putting 'boots on the ground.' For years, the CIA has been running a secrecy-shrouded program of targeted killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, and more recently in Somalia, Syria and Iraq.
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Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.
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Gaza itself is subject to constant aerial surveillance by drones and is rife with informers and collaborators with Israel.
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I'm a big advocate of drones.
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Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.
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- Nov 07, 2020