Drones

Why Does the Media Defend Drone Operators?

We don’t need to hear a pilot’s perspective.

The Distributed Empire of the War on Terror

Drone attacks and U.S. involvement in Pakistan.

  • Madiha Tahir

Study the Warmakers

From drone strikes to counterinsurgency efforts, the work of the late historian Nasser Hussain highlights the importance of understanding the mechanics of the War on Terror, not just its effects.

  • Atiya Husain

Terror and Abolition

Counterterrorism largely ensnares people of color.

  • Atiya Husain

Drone Victims Testify Before Congress

A Pakistani family demands acknowledgment of their grandmother's death.

  • Beenish Ahmed

The Sound of Terror

The phenomenology of a drone strike.

  • Nasser Hussain

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The Cost of Our Drone War in Pakistan

An interview with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed.

  • Wajahat Ali

War Without Strategy

The United States relies on drones to make up for its lack of coherent policy in the war on terrorism.

  • Jonathan Hafetz

Rethinking the War on Terror

President Obama’s speech on counterterrorism strategy fell short on substance.

  • Elizabeth Goitein
  • Faiza Patel

What Would Augustine Do?

The President, Drones, and Just War Theory

  • David Luban

Plague of Locusts

Our Failure to Regulate Drone Warfare

  • Richard Falk

Unfair Advantages

Selling Asymmetric War at the Unmanned Vehicle Systems Trade Show

  • Joseph Nevins

Robocop

Drones at home.

  • Joseph Nevins
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