Experts say rising civilian casualties are the result of an anomalous situation where the US is pursuing a conventional aerial campaign against the Taliban with virtually no troops on the ground to provide reliable intelligence to guide it.
Former drone operator Brandon Bryant tells the Bureau about what he saw of it during his time with the Air Force.
In this week’s Drone News, Abigail Fielding-Smith interviewed military affairs expert Peter Singer on his new book, Ghost Fleet, which manages to be both a treatise on the future of war and a novel. “It’s a smash-up of two genres … Continued
Shabwa, Yemen – Flickr/dianadrz Distinguishing between militants in Yemen and those merely associated with them is getting harder as the country’s war drags on, correspondent Iona Craig told this week’s Drone News. In conversation with the Open Society Justice Initiative’s Amrit Singh, … Continued
Giving the US drone programme to the Pentagon may not increase accountability, as many expect.
Data from Drone Wars UK shows RAF Reapers carried out more than two-fifths of the strikes in Iraq.
The Bureau’s drones team discuss the news that three more US citizens were killed in a January drone strike in Pakistan.
Owen Bennett-Jones meets a drone technology researcher and an entrepreneur in this episode of the Bureau’s podcast, recorded in California.
Why are US drone pilots leaving the military in large numbers?
Civilians continue to die in US drone strikes in Yemen despite strict new rules reportedly restraining strikes when civilians are in danger.
Owen Bennett-Jones discusses the Senate report on CIA torture with Crofton Black, who researches the agency’s secret prisons for the legal NGO Reprieve.
A former US drone operator on the latest episode of the Bureau’s drones podcast
A former head of GCHQ has urged the government to publish legal guidance governing intelligence sharing arrangements with the US, amid concerns that the UK might be complicit in targeted killing by American drones. In a letter to foreign secretary … Continued
Episode 25 of the Bureau’s podcast Drone News.
A UK drone operator speaks exclusively to the Bureau.
Latest episode of the Bureau podcast Drone News.
