February 6, 2017 – February 12, 2017 If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone Loitering munitions are a proliferating class of drones that double as precision attack weapons. …
[gview file=”http://dronecenter.bard.edu/files/2016/12/Drones-in-Iraq-and-Syria-CSD.pdf”] In Syria and Iraq today, there are more drones, made in more countries, and flown by more groups, than in any previous conflict. Once primarily the domain of technologically advanced militaries such as the United States, drones are being adopted by less technologically advanced militaries, militias, and non-state …
October 10, 2016 – October 16, 2016 If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone The U.S. president plays a key role in determining the country’s counterterrorism policies, including …
By Dan Gettinger Drones are a becoming a popular tool for conveying what is happening on the front lines in Syria and Iraq. New drone videos from this conflict are released on nearly a weekly basis, enabling high and low budget actors to give an aerial perspective to events on …
By Dan Gettinger On August 21, 2015, Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin, two British citizens who had traveled to Syria to fight with ISIL, were killed in a British drone strike while traveling in a vehicle outside of Raqqa, Syria. According to the British government, the strike was necessary to …
By Arthur Holland Michel On February 5, 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations General Assembly in order to describe in detail the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was supposedly developing in Iraq. This speech is now infamous, and the the inaccurate statements about …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone If one drone can be claimed, above all others, to have started the drone revolution, it is the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone The FBI’s secretive domestic drone program has been on a budgetary roller coaster in the past few years. Shawn Musgrave takes a …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News A U.S. Predator drone reportedly took part in a series of American airstrikes against Islamic State positions in northeastern Iraq. The drone strike hit a mortar position. President Obama announced …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News President Obama will intervene in the development of national drone regulations, issuing an executive order granting the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, part of the Commerce Department, the mandate …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News The Department of Defense announced that the U.S. is flying armed drones over Baghdad in support of American military advisers who are working with the Iraqi military in the wake …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News At least 10 suspected militants were reportedly killed in two separate U.S. drone strikes near the town of Miram Shah in northwestern Pakistan. The strikes, which took place seven …
