In 2002 a US Predator drone operating above Afghanistan’s Paktia province spotted three men in Zhawar Kili, a complex slightly north of the infamous Tora Bora cave system, an area used by al-Qaeda leadership to train and regroup. One of the men was tall; supposedly the others were acting reverently towards him. Convinced the tall man was Osama bin Laden a Hellfire missile was fired from the Predator, killing all three men instantly. The tall man was not bin Laden. None of the men were even affiliated with al-Qaeda or the Taliban; they were simply civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time. This strike and many others that are all too similar raise a multitude of questions, both legal and moral, regarding the US lethal drone strike progr...
An American drone pilot thousands of miles away from Afghanistan sees a tempting target on his compu...
The first of a two-part series on the legality and ethics of targeted killing, this paper closely ex...
Armed drones are an integral part of modern warfare, adopted by a progressively wider array of stat...
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States government began to use drones ...
Purpose - After the incident of 9/11, the use of unmanned combat aerial vehicle, also known as comba...
This paper explores the complex relationship between drones, war crimes, and environmental damage in...
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fu...
For almost a decade, the United States has deployed unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to kill t...
This article examines the use by the US of drone strikes in regions described as ‘outside areas of a...
The United States employing armed unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or “drones” against al qaeda and Tal...
“[I]n all of our operations involving the use of force, including those in the armed conflict with A...
In the ongoing War on Terror, the Obama Administration has relied heavily on a new form of military ...
Amid contentions of legality and conduct of drone attacks, this paper explores the legitimacy of dro...
Although the history of U.S. drone strikes on Pakistan is not so long, which was began since 2004 an...
On January 14, 2010, four Hellfire missiles fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle (“drone”) slammed ...
An American drone pilot thousands of miles away from Afghanistan sees a tempting target on his compu...
The first of a two-part series on the legality and ethics of targeted killing, this paper closely ex...
Armed drones are an integral part of modern warfare, adopted by a progressively wider array of stat...
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States government began to use drones ...
Purpose - After the incident of 9/11, the use of unmanned combat aerial vehicle, also known as comba...
This paper explores the complex relationship between drones, war crimes, and environmental damage in...
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fu...
For almost a decade, the United States has deployed unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to kill t...
This article examines the use by the US of drone strikes in regions described as ‘outside areas of a...
The United States employing armed unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or “drones” against al qaeda and Tal...
“[I]n all of our operations involving the use of force, including those in the armed conflict with A...
In the ongoing War on Terror, the Obama Administration has relied heavily on a new form of military ...
Amid contentions of legality and conduct of drone attacks, this paper explores the legitimacy of dro...
Although the history of U.S. drone strikes on Pakistan is not so long, which was began since 2004 an...
On January 14, 2010, four Hellfire missiles fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle (“drone”) slammed ...
An American drone pilot thousands of miles away from Afghanistan sees a tempting target on his compu...
The first of a two-part series on the legality and ethics of targeted killing, this paper closely ex...
Armed drones are an integral part of modern warfare, adopted by a progressively wider array of stat...