Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Drone Warfare
President Obama laid out his strategy for defeating ISIS this week. And it included talk of airstrikes. In November, one of those strikes killed the ISIS spokesman known as Jihadi John, a British man who beheaded American captives on camera. That airstrike was actually carried out by an unmanned drone.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readPresident Obama laid out his strategy for defeating ISIS this week. And it included talk of airstrikes. In November, one of those strikes killed the ISIS spokesman known as Jihadi John, a British man who beheaded American captives on camera. That airstrike was actually carried out by an unmanned drone. Drones are increasingly the tool of choice for many countries involved in armed conflict, and countries looking to spy on one another. But there is no single set of international rules that govern the use of drones by nations. How has the lack of rules affected things on the ground?
MQ-9 Reaper, a hunter-killer surveillance UAV
Photo: US Air Force Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/USAF Photographic Archives
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4 of 5SCOTUS Considers Affirmative Action, Jihadi Twitter and Drone Warfare- 0:00SCOTUS Considers Affirmative Action
- 8:24Affirmative Action in California
- 15:26ISIS on Twitter
- 23:44Drone WarfareYou’re reading this
- 40:27The Petersen Automotive Museum