Foreign Policy Essay
Drones Are the New Face of U.S. Foreign Policy. What Good Are They?
Jacqueline L. Hazelton Sun, Jul 23, 2017, 10:00 AM
Jacqueline Hazelton looks at drone strikes through the lens of grand strategy.
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Foreign Policy Essay
New Declaration on UAV Exports Unlikely to Reduce Drone Proliferation
Erik Lin-Greenberg Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 10:03 AM
Erik Lin-Greenberg argues that the recent agreement regulating U.S. drone exports will be ineffective at best and, at worst, potentially harmful for U.S. national security.
Libya
Do We Care Less About Air Strikes When Pilots Are in the Cockpit? The Droneless Air War in Libya
Robert Chesney Thu, Sep 1, 2016, 10:19 AM
Are you paying attention to Operation Odyssey Lightning, the U.S. air campaign underway for a full month now in Libya? Not many people are, which is interesting considering that we are approaching 100 airstrikes there in four weeks.
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Targeted Killing: Drones
President Obama's Executive Order on Pre/Post Airstrike Policies and Practices
Robert Chesney Fri, Jul 1, 2016, 2:55 PM
Hot off the press: The new Executive Order concerning pre-strike and post-strike practices and policies is here, ODNI's release of aggregate casaulty information is here, and the official fact sheet concerning them both is
Readings
Military Drones: Evolutionary, Not Transformative, Not Revolutionary
Kenneth Anderson Wed, Jun 29, 2016, 2:05 PM
A recent paper by Michael C. Horowitz, Sarah E. Kreps, and Matthew Furhmann pulls down to earth the sometimes extravagant predictions of the past decade that military drones are transforming warfare, and show how this is an evolutionary, not revolutionary, military technology.
Readings
Strategic Effects of Proliferating Military UAVs in the Asia Pacific Region
Kenneth Anderson Fri, Jun 24, 2016, 2:44 PM
New short report by CNAS associate fellow Kelley Sayler on the strategic and policy issues raised by military UAVs (in many different sizes, sophistication, and configurations), as they enter countries' weapons inventories across the Asia Pacific region
Targeted Killing
What The Intercept Found in “The Drone Papers”—And What I Found In Them
Quinta Jurecic Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 5:20 PM
The Intercept yesterday released its latest scoop: a cache of leaked documents on the U.S. drone program, presented as a series of blockbuster stories.