Yesterday, we marked the 10th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the 10 years since tanks rolled into Baghdad, much has, of course, changed. One particularly notable shift is the American public’s increasing aversion to large-scale military i…
Glimer Mirror Op-Ed: We’ve Got to Get Out of that Place by John Isaacs & Usha Sahay
Published in The Gilmer Mirror on March 7, 2013. Article summary below, click here to read full article. By John Isaacs and Usha Sahay The U.S. war in Afghanistan is beginning to wind down. As President Barack Obama promised in his State of the Union address, half of the U.S. troops there will return home […]
Obama Addresses Key National Security Issues in State of the Union
“Lessening the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons usable materials is a vital national security and fiscal priority,” said Kingston Reif, director of non-proliferation programs at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “There is an emerging bipartisan and military consensus that a significantly smaller stockpile would meet our security needs. In this time of economic uncertainty, further reductions with Russia could create significant cost savings that would free funding for higher priority security programs.”
Toy Drones and the Evolution of Drone Warfare
The nomination of President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to head the CIA has a lot of folks talking about drones. Head over to PolicyMic today to see my take on the most recent advances in drone warfare.
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The debate over drone warfare as a counterterrorism tactic is only just beginning to take shape. Drones provide the U.S. with an option for precise long-range strike that poses fewer risks to men in uniform. But they also raise moral and ethical questions that have yet to be addressed. Drones’ relative ease of use and antiseptic nature, along with the ever-increasing reach of the U.S. drone war and expansion of U.S. “kill lists,” has raised questions over the legal and political consequences of such a strategy. The president himself has noted that, “There’s a remoteness to it that makes it tempting to think that somehow we can, without any mess on our hands, solve vexing security problems.”
AR Parrot Drones: The New Evolution of Drone Warfare
by Laicie Heeley [contact information] This article originally appeared on PolicyMic on January 8, 2013. Now that we’ve moved past the holidays, let me ask: What did you get for Christmas? A new camera? A tablet? How about a drone? It might seem like a joke, but toy drones such as the Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter […]
