Sentences with phrase «use of drone strikes»

In killing Bin Laden and ramping up the use of drone strikes to dismantle terrorist networks in Afghanistan, Obama has done just that.

Not exact matches

Drone strikes» greater accuracy and lower profile give them the edge when policymakers are concerned about popular opinion and the potential costs of the use of force.

For example, drone strikes are similar to Special Forces in their direct targeting ability in remote locations, but are less likely to create domestic opposition to the use of force because they don't put U.S. lives directly at risk.

Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

Using drones instead of a strike aircraft in a war — sure all for it.

Campaigners fear the ability to strip Brits of their passport has already been used to rid the UK of legal responsibility for citizens before allowing the US to target them in drone strikes.

A Palestinian who lost 11 members of his family in Israeli drone strikes wants to know if they were used as human shields.

Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company's involvement in a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video imagery and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes.

Pakistan's Ministry of Health runs an anti-polio program, but in Waziristan, a region bordering Afghanistan, rumors spread that the CIA was using health campaigns to gather information for drone strikes.

From Captain America: The Winter Soldier to Good Kill (which addressed the ethics of drone strikes), the topic of spying — and whether or not there should be limits to governments» use of mass surveillance — has been a hot political topic on the big screen.

Niccol gets at how the lingo of drone - strikes — using «prosecute» for a launch, «splash» for an explosion, «double - tap» for a follow - up launch, and so on — attempts to insulate the crew from what they're actually doing.

The map mechanic that was shown off is neat, as was the use of a small drone to blind enemies so the team could strike.

The massive area of operations, open - ended character progression, plenty of entertaining tools to use (like target - marking drone)... Wildlands strikes many extremely appealing notes.

The intriguing aspect of Strike Team's gameplay model is the fact that it uses a top - down «Drone» view, similar to the presentation in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, in addition to the traditional first person mechanic used in the console titles.

The organisation deftly uses media, models, graphics and film to tell complex stories of drone strikes, detention centres, cafe shootings and — sometimes — justice.

The morality of drone strikes, the legal arguments behind their use,...

Thousands of employees have signed a letter calling on their C.E.O. to pull out of a project that could be used to improve drone strike targeting.

The year opened with a resolution by the European Parliament on 27 February on the use of armed drones that included a call to «ban the development, production and use of fully autonomous weapons which enable strikes to be carried out without human intervention.»

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

tech.slashdot.org - Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company's involvement in a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video imagery and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes (Editor's note: the link ma...

«We've worked hard to strike a responsible balance that protects the safety and privacy of individuals, while also ensuring real estate professionals can put drones to good use,» said Salomone, broker - owner of Real Estate II Inc. in Coral Springs, Florida.