2. Background info

REPORTS & BRIEFINGS

US Unmanned Aerial Systems	Congressional Research Service Report looks at development and future of drones
Targeting Operations with Drone Technology: Humanitarian Law Implications	Excellent briefing on drones and international law
Does Unmanned Make Unacceptable?	Pax Christ International report exploring ethics of using drones and robots
Drone Wars: Below the public radar?	Fellowship of Reconciliation short briefing on armed drones
Precisely Wrong: Gaza Civilians Killed by Israeli Drone-Launched Missiles	Human Rights Watch Brieifing

ARTICLES
 

License to Kill: How Drones are changing warfare	Excellent summary of the issues from David Cortright of Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Attack of the Drones The Guardian, 16 January 2011	How police and civil authorities are catching up with military use of drones
Rise of the robots and the future of war The Guardian, 21 November 2010	Excellent and comprehensive article on rise of miitary robotics
RAF Bomb the Taliban from 8000 miles away: Daily Telegraph 21/03/2009	DT reporter visits UK drones operators at their base in Nevada.
The Predator War: The New Yorker 26/10/2009	Excellent overview of the CIA’s drone programme
The Forty-Year Drone War: The Tom Dispatch 24/01/2009	Nick Turse examining past and future of drone wars
International Law: The First Casualty of the Drone War: Z-Net 12/12/2009	Comprehensive legal analysis of US drone strikes in Pakistan
Revenge of the Drones: New American Foundation 19/10/2009	Details of US drone strikes in Pakistan
The War Room:  The toll on drone operators Stars and Stripes 27/10/2009	Military newspaper examines life of drone operators
Defence groups eye drones for war and policing  The Times, 17 August 2009	BAE working with police and universities to explore using drones for surveillance in the UK