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South Korea Says US Drones May Be Too Expensive
South Korea is not necessarily committed to buying US Global Hawk surveillance drones, a spokesman said on Wednesday, after the Pentagon requested congressional permission for such a sale.Seoul's...
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This Air Force Is Replacing All Of This Unit's Jets With Unmanned Drones
The end of the fighter pilot, and nearly a century of military fighter planes, is an idea that garners a lot of attention lately and this report out of Nebraska is a prime example why.Andrew Nelson at...
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‘Alice in Wonderland’ Ruling Allows Obama Administration To Keep Drone...
In the latest sign that President Obama's targeted killing program may be forever shrouded in secrecy, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon has denied a Freedom of Information Request from the American...
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Anwar al-Awlaki May Have Bought Hijackers Pre-9/11 Tickets
The FBI suspected that US-born Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen, could have bought air tickets for three of the 9/11 hijackers before the attacks, a transparency...
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US Reported To Be Fighting 'Secret War' In Yemen With Help Of Saudi Arabia
The United States is aiding local troops in a fight against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen, the Times of London reports.The British newspaper calls it "the secret war", with the...
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The 'War On Terror' Is Designed To Never End
Last month, outgoing Pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on Terror must, at some point, come to an end:"Now that efforts by the US military...
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Drone Toy For Kids Draws Sharp Response From Amazon Reviewers
The Amazon page for Maisto's miniature RQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has become a sounding board for Americans disgusted with their government's targeted killing program. The armed RQ-1...
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US Sale Of Armed Drones To Japan And South Korea Would Transform Tensions In...
America's two closest Asian allies hope introduce U.S. unmanned Global Hawk aircraft by 2015.According to UPI.com, South Korea is looking to buy four RQ-4 Global Hawks to "to monitor and deter regional...
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Infographic Shows With Stunning Clarity How Domestic Drone Use Is The New Normal
It's a Pandora's Box we cannot close: drones are here to stay.Police use them, journalists use them, even the folks at Occupy Wall Street used them. The Federal Aviation Administration recently leapt...
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John Brennan As CIA Chief Would Cement A New Era Of US Counterterrorism
There are multiple indications that this afternoon President Obama will nominate White House homeland-security and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to be the next director of the CIA.The move is...
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Former Obama Adviser: Drones Are Much More Destructive Than Officials Admit
The United States' use of drones is counter-productive, less effective than the White House claims, and is "encouraging a new arms race that will empower current and future rivals and lay the...
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The General Who Ran US Drones Admits They Cause 'Visceral Resentment' Toward...
The overuse of drones could jeopardize U.S. objectives abroad since drone strikes are so universally hated, retired General Stanley McChrystaltold Reuters.McChrystal — the former ISAF commander who...
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John Brennan's 2011 Claim About Civilian Drone Casualties Is Increasingly...
On June 29, 2011, chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama and CIA director nominee John Brennantold an audience that there had not been "a single collateral death" in covert U.S....
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America Is Setting A Dangerous Precedent For The Drone Age
The decisions America makes today regarding drone policy could come back to haunt it sooner than later.Micah Zenko of the Council of Foreign Relations makes this argument in a new report:A major risk...
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'Double-Tap' Strikes In Pakistan Create Chaos To Start 2013
So far in 2013 Pakistan has been messier than usual, mostly due to brutal "double tap" tactics employed by both radical Sunni militants and busy CIA drones.The Associated Press reports that a series of...
View ArticleThe Drones Are Here! (And You Can Buy One Now)
Parrot, a company best known for making Bluetooth headsets and accessories, has been expanding its offerings over the last few years. The company not only makes the best headphones on the planet, but...
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Britain's New Stealth Bomber Is Unmanned And Fully Autonomous (BAL)
Britain's Royal Air Force has been using Tornado jets as bombers for decades and is already building a fleet of new Typhoons, but BAE hopes to supplement those forces with a powerful new drone.The...
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Orlando Florida Patrolled By Surveillance Drones As Early As This Summer
When Congress passed a bill last February allowing unmanned drones to fly American skies it became only a matter of time before UAVs patrolled U.S. cities for local law enforcement.While most drones in...
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The US Plans To Give Drones To Afghanistan Amid Heated Policy Debate
Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai's recent meeting didn't reveal much of anything, but afterward Karzai followed it up by telling reporters the U.S. plans to hand Afghanistan its own fleet of...
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The Army Wants A Massive New Complex For Its Fleet Of Drones
So the Army is taking bids on parts of its new 'Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Complex' — slated to cost between $20 and 25 million.Mark Thompson of Time's Battleland blog jokes that this can't possibly fit...
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