We are publishing from today a list of known UK drone strikes in Afghanistan. The list will be regularly updated when information becomes available. The UK Drone Strike List is available here In summary: Some details of 80 (40%) of UK drone strikes… Read More ›
At the UK-French summit in Paris today, David Cameron and President Sarkozy agree a new Declaration on security and defence. The relevant section on drones (paragraph 16) reads: Unmanned air systems are crucial to success in the battlefield, as the… Read More ›
Summary: Drones are the latest ‘must have’ weapon systems and the big military companies are desperate to be part of what is beginning to be called ‘the drones gold-rush’. While Cameron is keen to emphasize that only a ‘few tens… Read More ›
Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. In his recent article The Menace of Present and Future Drone Warfare, he places the growing use of drones in their historical and… Read More ›
The drone lobby in the US has had a stunning success in pushing its agenda of enabling unmanned drones to fly freely in civil airspace. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Bill has been passed by both Senate and Congress and… Read More ›
Anyone with even a passing interest in the military soon discovers the peculiar phenomenon of ‘military speak’, in which a spade can never quite be called a spade. Bombs and bullets are called ’ordnance consumables’, a missile strike or bombing raid… Read More ›
