11. THE FUTURE OF KILLER DRONES
1. Charlie Savage, “Obama Adviser Discusses Using Military on Terrorists,” New York Times, September 16, 2011.
2. Ahmed Rashid, “The US Pakistani Relationship in the Year Ahead,” Combating Terrorism Center Sentinel, January 18, 2012.
3. Aamir Latif, “Obama’s Hidden War: US Intensifies Drone Attacks in Pakistan,” GlobalPost, May 23, 2011, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan/110520/al-qaeda-osama-bin-laden-north-waziristan.
4. “Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen.”
5. Ibid.
6. Charlie Savage, “Awlaki Strike Shows US Shift to Drones in Terror Fight,” New York Times, October 1, 2011.
7. Jim Michaels and Tom Brook, “Precision Strikes Are the New Weapon of Choice,” USA Today, October 1, 2011.
8. Spencer Ackerman, “Obama’s New Defense Plan: Drones, Spec Ops and Cyber War,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, January 5, 2012, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/pentagon-asia-strategy/.
9. “Joe Biden Says America Needs More Drones, Gary Johnson Says the War Stops Here,” Washington Times, October 12, 2012.
10. Julian Barnes, “More Drones, Fewer Troops,” Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2012.
11. Julian Barnes, “US Expands Drone Flights to Take Aim at East Africa,” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2011; Jim Lobe, “US Expanding Network of Drone Bases to Hit Somalia, Yemen,” Inter Press Service, September 21, 2011.
12. Craig Whitlock and Greg Miller, “US Assembling Secret Drone Bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula Officials Say,” Washington Post, September 20, 2011.
13. Greg Miller, “CIA Shifts Focus to Killing Targets,” Washington Post, September 1, 2011; Noah Shachtman, “Is This the Secret US Drone Base in Saudi Arabia?” Danger Room (blog), Wired, February 7, 2013, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/secret-drone-base-2/.
14. Eric Schmitt, “US Troops at Drone Base in West Africa,” New York Times, February 23, 2013.
15. Julian Barnes, “Floating Bases Enhance Capacity for Quick Strikes,” Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2010.
16. Ibid.
17. Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman, “Almost 1 in 3 US Warplanes Is a Robot,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, January 9, 2012, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/drone-report/.
18. Greg Miller, “CIA to Expand Drone Fleet Officials Say,” Washington Post, October 19, 2012.
19. “Flight of the Drones.”
20. Rachel Martin, “Drone Pilots: The Future of Aerial Warfare,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, November 29, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142858358/drone-pilots-the-future-of-aerial-warfare.
21. John Robb, “The Future of Drone Warfare,” Global Guerillas (blog), December 21, 2011, http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/12/drone-bonjwas.html.
22. James Dao, “Drone Pilots Are Found to Get Stress Disorders Much as Those in Combat Do,” New York Times, February 23, 2012.
23. “Drones and the Man.”
24. Barnes, “More Drones, Fewer Troops.”
25. “American Spy Drones Swarm in Droves over Afghanistan,” RT, October 20, 2011, http://rt.com/usa/news/afghanistan-us-drones-nato-243/.
26. Ackerman and Shachtman, “Almost 1 in 3 US Warplanes.”
27. Scott Shane, “Coming Soon: The Drone Arms Race,” New York Times, October 8, 2011.
28. Nick Hopkins, “Afghan Civilians Killed by RAF Drone,” Guardian, July 5, 2011.
29. Ibid.
30. “Taranis: The 143 Million Jet That Can Hit Targets on Another Continent,” Daily Mail, July 13, 2010.
31. “United Arab Emirates Set to buy Predator Drones,” Los Angeles Times, February 22, 2013.
32. “Pentagon Plans to Spend $37 Billion on Drones,” Allgov.com, January 17, 2012, http://www.allgov.com/news/where-is-the-money-going/pentagon-plans-to-spend-37-billion-on-drones?news=843895.
33. Ibid.
34. “Armed UAV Operations 10 Years On,” Stratfor, January 12, 2012, http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/armed-uav-operations-10-years.
35. Anwar Iqbal, “US Plans 75pc Increase in Drone Operations,” Dawn, February 3, 2010, http://archives.dawn.com/archives/44399.
36. Ibid.
37. Robert Johnson, “The Navy’s Modified X-47B Unmanned Drone Makes China’s ‘Carrier Killing’ Missiles Obsolete,” Business Insider, November 27, 2012, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-navys-modified-x-47b-unmanned-drone-makes-chinas-carrier-killing-missiles-obsolete-2012-11.
38. “Soon a Drone That Can Stay in the Air for 4 Days,” Times of India, November 1, 2011.
39. David Hambling, “Air Force Completes Killer Micro-Drone Project,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, January 5, 2010, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/killer-micro-drone/.
40. “US Army Orders First Suicide Drones,” Innovation News Daily, September 6, 2011.
41. “Droning On,” Ottawa Citizen, January 12, 2012.
42. Nick Turse, “Investigation Finds US Military Drones Have Flown Close to 3 Million Hours,” AlterNet, November 1, 2011, http://www.alternet.org/story/152925/investigation_finds_u.s._military_drones_have_flown_close_to_3_million_hours.
43. “Faster Meaner Apaches Allow Pilots to Control Drones in Battle,” Military.com, November 2, 2011.
44. “Predator B Drones Now Used to Monitor US Mexico Border,” KSBY.com, September 1, 2010, http://www.ksby.com/news/predator-b-drones-now-used-to-monitor-u-s-mexico-border/#.
45. Associated Press, “FBI: Mass. Man Had ‘Mission’ against Pentagon,” CBS News, November 4, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57319111/fbi-mass-man-had-mission-against-pentagon/.