By Rachel Stohl: Last month, Defense News broke the story of US efforts to negotiate a joint declaration for the export and subsequent use of armed, or “strike-enabled,” drones. Now, a revised version of the declaration is circulating a …
Last month, Defense News broke the story of US efforts to negotiate a joint declaration for the export and subsequent use of armed, or “strike-enabled,” drones. Now, a revised version of the declaration is circulating and sources report it wi …
Watch the event video below or click here. In today’s security environment, governments face unbounded forms of warfare, with shifting alliances, new enemies, new technologies, and limitless battlefields. In her new book, How Everything Became War …
Published September 7, 2016 / Held September 26, 2016
During the Obama administration, more than 500 unmanned drone strikes were responsible for the estimated deaths of 3,040 terrorists and 391 civilians in three countries: Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. Those figures are from 2009 until the early part of 2 …
By: Rachel Stohl and Shannon Dick After months of delays and much anticipation, the Federal Aviation Administration finally released its final rule on small drones. The rule represents an important, long-delayed step toward establishing compr …
AFTER MONTHS OF delays and much anticipation, the Federal Aviation Administration finally released its final rule on small drones. The rule represents an important, long-delayed step toward establishing comprehensive regulations for …
AFTER MONTHS OF delays and much anticipation, the Federal Aviation Administration finally released its final rule on small drones. The rule represents an important, long-delayed step toward establishing comprehensive regulations for …
More than three years after promising greater transparency over the U.S. lethal drone program, the Obama administration took a significant if belated step towards that goal. Late on a Friday afternoon before the long Fourth of July weekend, t …
La promessa dell’impiego di droni d’attacco a fini militari è sempre stata quella della massima precisione a fronte del minimo rischio per il personale militare: l’introduzione dei droni armati avrebbe dovuto consentire agli Usa di neutralizzare terror …
The Obama administration recently released government informationabout civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes targeting terrorists and violent extremists. The data was long-promised and long-awaited, but its release nevertheless received a te …
State visits are the pinnacle of diplomatic ceremony and the utmost expression of friendly bilateral relations between countries. Their pomp and circumstance – the 21-gun salutes, state dinners, and cultural events – confer honor and respect upon the v …
Die US-Regierung hat erstmals offiziell Daten über die Zahl der bei geheimen Drohnenschlägen getöteten Zivilisten veröffentlicht. Menschenrechtsorganisationen und Analyse-Portale hinterfragen diese Angaben. Sie schätzen die tatsächlichen Zahlen getötet …
The promise of the armed drone has always been precision: The United States could kill just the small number of dangerous terrorists it wanted to kill, leaving nearby civilians unharmed. But the Obama administration’s unprecedented release last we …
The Obama administration opened a small window on the lethality of its drone program Friday, for the first time offering a rough estimate of the number of civilians killed in counterterrorism air raids. But the death toll estimate continues to obscure …
Up to 116 civilians may have been killed in U.S. drone strikes outside of war zones, an assessment by U.S. intelligence officials said Friday. Between 64 and 116 civilians were killed in counterterrorism strikes outside of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, …
In a rare move that analysts say could ease soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing, five warships from China’s navy have taken part in training exercises with US vessels while en route from the western Pacific to Hawaii for the biennial R …
In light of the Obama administration’s release today of casualty data that indicated the U.S. drone program has killed an estimated 64 to 116 civilians outside of traditional war zones — as well as an Executive Order addressing civilian casualties in U …
Watch the event video below or click here. On July 1st, the Obama administration provided long-anticipated information concerning civilians killed by U.S. drone strikes in areas outside Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria since 2009. This release represents t …
The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday released the first operational rules for the commercial use of drones, a move experts say will help stoke business and innovation even as it leaves a number of critical issues unresolved. -snip- “The Europ …
During the Obama presidency, the US drone program has been a topic of significant debate, with critics calling into question the program’s overall efficacy and highlighting the threat lethal drones pose to innocent civilians. Civilian casualties have r …
By Rachel Stohl: During the Obama presidency, the U.S. drone program has been a topic of significant debate, with critics calling into question the program’s overall efficacy and highlighting the threat lethal drones pose to innocent civilians. C …
What happens when a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS)—or drone—enters sensitive civilian air space? When such aircraft threaten public safety, law enforcement agencies face a significant challenge. Most technologies developed to take out intentionall …
Twenty-eight faith leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh traditions today sent an Interfaith Letter on Drone Warfare to President Barak Obama. -snip- A recent report from the Stimson Center gave previous efforts to reform …
The death of Mullah Mansour in Balochistan, Pakistan from a U.S. drone strike has propelled Haibatullah Akhundzada to the leadership of the Afghan Taliban. His elevation has been met with little criticism within the Taliban ranks. In fac …
The Obama administration’s drone strike policies around the world have “blown accountability and oversight and checks and balances up in smoke,” a US Army chaplain who left the military in April told RT in an interview. In a letter to President Barack …
Last Friday, following another uninspiring meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group, Pakistan issued a statement that more needed to be done militarily to deny Taliban military gains and bring the group back to the negotiating table. T …
As the Obama administration prepares to publish a long-delayed accounting of how many militants and noncombatant civilians it has killed since 2009, its statistics may be defined as much by what is left out as by what is included. -snip- The totals wil …
We’ll throw down. There’s a fight brewing over the 2017 Defense Department budget, and right in the middle of the scrum is how to use the $58 billion the White House has set aside to pay for military operations in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. -sn …
Iraq’s death toll rose past 140 this week after two bombings hit predominantly Shiite neighborhoods around the capital, killing at least 54 and wounding another nearly 100, AP reports: “In an online statement, IS claimed r …
-snip- Tuesday: The National Transportation Safety Board holds a meeting to determine the probable cause of the Philadelphia Amtrak passenger train derailment. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers hosts a discussion on the future of infrastr …