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Pratap Chatterjee: Are Pilots Deserting Washington’s Remote-Control War?

The Air Force is currently under orders to staff 65 of these regular “combat air patrols” around the clock as well as to support a Global Response Force on call for emergency military and humanitarian missions. For all of this, there should ideally be 1,700 trained pilots. Instead, facing an accelerating dropout rate that recently More

Sammy Almashat: Terrors of U.S. Drone War Brought to Light

Civilian deaths not aberrations Sammy Almashat Public Citizen Health Letter June 2013 The U.S. use of armed drones against countries around the world is now in its 12th year. President Barack Obama, whose successful 2008 campaign largely relied on discontent with the foreign policy of George W. Bush, has overseen a dramatic expansion of Bush’s More