Sentences with phrase «drone strikes»

Taking tools of war and developing them for science, convenience and entertainment is only plausible in the countries staring at the aftermath of drone strikes through a console rather than their own eyes.

But drone strikes often aren't as accurate as their proponents claim.

I say hit them with a few drone strikes.

It's a war movie about the way wars are being fought now and the questions that our reliance on drone strikes raise.

In his animations, biblical figures and saints navigate contemporary problems such as pizza addiction, pop - up porn ads, office holiday parties, and even drone strikes.

What does war become in the remote - control age of drone strikes and remote surveillance?

Bilal al Berjawi and Mohamed Sakr, two British citizens, had their nationality revoked last year just before they were killed in drone strikes in Somalia.

These facts aren't exactly news, but this report, which was produced by human rights experts at Stanford and NYU, gives a voice to the people actually affected by drone strikes in Pakistan.

Tom McCauley's «U.S. Public Support for Drone Strikes against Asymmetric Enemies Abroad: Poll Trends in 2013» shows that, while a strong majority of U.S. citizens are in favor of using drones against terrorists in foreign lands, a small and increasing minority are against their use.

«Homeland's politics have gotten murkier since its first season focused on the collateral and psychological damage done by drone strikes on terrorist targets.»

Germany, for example, has in the past limited intelligence sharing with the United States because of legal and ethical concerns about drone strikes outside battlefields.

At the same time, US President Barack Obama authorised a three-fold increase in the number of drone strikes targeting AQAP operatives in Yemen in 2012, resulting in the deaths of a number of senior figures, including Shihri, the deputy leader.

In response to a question about using drone strikes against US citizens, here in the United States, Holder wrote:

The second section explores the societal and political implications of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan against the backdrop of the unique geopolitical environment in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

Starring Helen Mirren, decease Aaron Paul and the late Alan Rickman (making one of his last appearances here), the film explores drone strikes from military and political perspectives.

«I think if you said to people, «Picture the first episode of the new series of Black Mirror», they would imagine someone frowning at a see - through phone in the future with drone strikes going off behind them,» elaborates Brooker.

The air raid appears to have been carried out overnight between 21 and 22 April, when witnesses in Mukalla said an apparent US drone strike on a vehicle parked near the presidential palace in the city killed six suspected Al - Qaeda militants.

The work, titled Civilian Drone Strike, was auctioned alongside contributions by feminist activist group Guerrilla Girls and photomontage artist Peter Kennard, at the five - day Art The Arms Fair held last week in London in protest against the annual Defence and Security Equipment International arms fair.

A documentary about American drone strikes and night raids around the world, including in countries with which no war has been declared.

During a recent visit to Pakistan, US Secretary of State John Kerry stated that drone strikes there will end «very, very soon».

Senator Rand Paul has decidedly un-Republican views on things like drone strikes, military interventions, and the Patriot Act.

Yet drone strikes against sovereign states underline U.S. unilateralism and the country's fearsome power - projection capabilities.

Many of those who stopped to ask about the gaggle of media found out for the first time American Muslim cleric Anwar al - Awlaki, who once stood in their pulpit, had been killed Friday by a CIA drone strike in Yemen.

The Home Office has prevented a parliamentary meeting on drone strikes going ahead after it refused visas to victims.

With a huge uptick in militarized drone strikes over the past several years, the U.S. military is now facing a problem in the loss...

A time when online multiplayer, tactical drone strikes, and warfares set in modern surroundings were not too common.

His projects include a data compilation of every reported United States drone strike (Dronestream), a visual glossary of the Drone Papers, an initiative mapping the visual geography of American incarceration (Prison Map), and a quantification of military footprints (Empire.Is).

First, consider the process by which it is decided to order drone strikes:

Project Maven involves using artificial intelligence to improve the precision of military drone strikes.

Only in that context is it possible to decide whether one supports or opposes drone strikes for what they may gain the United States politically.

Drone strikes give the United States a smaller overseas military profile than do land - based conventional forces.

But assessing the value of drone strikes requires looking beyond the attacks themselves to first identify and prioritize U.S. interests and threats.

The most controversial drone strikes target groups and individuals in states without a public U.S. military presence and without that state's public permission.

As a political scientist studying the political uses of force, I suggest it's possible to better understand drone strikes by analyzing them within the context of grand strategy - or how a state thinks about assuring its own security.

People are concerned that drone strikes devalue non-American lives, dangerously expand executive power, and drive terrorism and anti-Americanism.

• The US's «targeted killing» program of drone strikes relies mostly on cellphone metadata and geolocation, rather than on - the - ground human intelligence.

• NSA surveillance was revealed to play a key role in targeting for overseas drone strikes.

Governments in the U.S. and Israel are already trying to sidestep responsibility for the damage existing drone strikes are doing, so there needs to be clear rules for who is ultimately responsible for anyone's death if humans are indeed going to be pulled out of the loop, which seems inevitable.

While the Obama administration halted a CIA effort to start a similar program in 2009, it did expand drone strikes, which the CIA continues to use.

Elsewhere in his letter, Holder writes that «the US government has not carried out drone strikes in the United States and has no intention of doing so.

The Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general will conduct what could be the first of several investigations of two January drone strikes that killed American doctor Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto, along with two U.S. - born al Qaeda militants, U.S. officials said on Friday.

While some, such as former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, have actively and vocally defended drone strikes, others, like former McCain advisor Richard Fontaine, have spoken out against certain aspects of the drone program such as the so - called «signature strikes.»

Are we talking home - made bombs in a Boston Marathon, drone strikes wiping out entire families in Northern Waziristan, collateral damage from air strikes in Iraq, nuclear bombs over Hiroshima?

Some of that money goes to providing Afghan woman with drone strike abortions.

So Rand Paul would support giving President full authority to commit drone strikes and to send US Troops into whatever Middle Eastern country he wants?

A few weeks before Donald Trump's administration would order its first drone strikes — a collaborative effort between soldiers and drones that killed at least 25 civilians.

The Pentagon and the CIA have, consequently, gained autonomy in conducting counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations, including drone strikes in Pakistan and night raids in Afghanistan, which are hugely counter-productive.

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said it was «deeply regrettable» that an RAF drone strike aimed at ISIS had resulted in a civilian death.