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Obama's Secret Wars
Dance of the Drones
• November 2, 2012
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Drones or their equivalent have long attracted political and military leaders dreaming of the surgical removal of their enemies. In 1812, the governor of Moscow, Count Rostopchin, devised a plan to get a hot-air balloon to hover over the French lines at Borodino and drop an explosive device on Napoleon. The source for this is... Read More
The Myth of the Drone War “Successes”
Assassination Campaigns Do Not Win Wars, and They Create as Many Enemies as They Destroy
• June 11, 2012
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As the US and its allies ponder what to do about Syria, one suggestion advanced by the protagonists of armed intervention is to use unmanned drones to attack Syrian government targets. The proposal is a measure of the extraordinary success of the White House, CIA and Defense Department in selling the drone as a wonder... Read More
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