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A challenge to drone apologists – where is your evidence?
Over the past few week there has been increasing attention to the issues raised by the growing use of armed unmanned drones. As protests at factories and bases have taken place, newspapers have begun...
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If you think like Paddy Ashdown on drones, then think again
Paddy Ashdown – or Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon – to give him his proper title, former Royal Marine, intelligence service officer and leader of the Liberal Democrats has an opinion piece in the...
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Obama speaks about drone wars
On Thursday (23 Oct) President Obama gave a much-trailed speech on counterterrorism, large parts of which focused on the US use of drones. At the same time a ‘fact sheet’ on US policy on the use of...
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Lawyers Challenge Legal Basis of UK Drone Strikes
Click images to download document (pdf) A leading firm of UK lawyers has today published a 52-page opinion on the legality of the use of armed drones by UK forces in Afghanistan. In what is sure to...
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Review: Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military edited...
Killing by Remote Control: Ethics of an Unmanned Military is a new collection of academic essays edited by Bradley Jay Strawser, a philosophy professor at the US Navy Postgraduate School in California....
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US drone campaigner to tour UK
Brian Terrell Brian Terrell, US anti-drone campaigner and long-time Catholic Worker activist is coming to the UK in October as part of the Week of Action on Drones. Brian lives and works at Strangers...
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MoD undertakes PR offensive on drones
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond holds a Black Hornet drone at RAF Waddington The MoD has launched a carefully controlled PR exercise to defend its use of armed drones. A selected number of journalist...
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Drones and the EU: a ‘solution’ looking for a problem
Guest post by Ben Hayes and Chris Jones. Click to download Today the Transnational Institute and Statewatch are jointly publishing a new report on the European Union and drones, entitled Eurodrones...
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What’s wrong with drones?
On Tuesday 25 March the Defence Select Committee will publish the results of their inquiry ‘Remote Control: Remotely Piloted Air Systems – current and future UK use’. Ahead of publication we outline...
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Camus in the Time of Drones
by Jeffrey St. Clair. Reproduced by kind permission of Counterpunch. Lucien rises from bed in the early morning. He dresses quietly, careful not to awaken his wife and infant son. He walks briskly...
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Book Review. Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security by Ann Rogers and...
A version of this review originally appeared in Peace News As writers and analysts for one of the military’s key journals – Jane’s Intelligence Review – Ann Rogers and John Hill, the authors of this...
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The danger of ‘sending in the drones’
Today’s Sun calls for the deployment of British drones to attack ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Rupert Murdoch thus joins a small but vocal chorus (including Liam Fox and Jack Straw) calling for the UK to...
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New Briefing: ‘Into the Fire: The dangers of redeploying British armed drones...
Click to download As NATO military operations come to an end in Afghanistan and the MoD faces a judicial review over its refusal to detail where UK drones will next be sent, Drone Wars UK is publishing...
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Book Review: ‘Drone Theory’ by Grégoire Chamayou (Trans: Janet Lloyd)
READING WEEK: The second in our short series of book reviews related to the use of armed drones. Henrietta Cullinan reviews Drone Theory by Grégoire Chamayou ‘One side loses people, the other side...
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Dannatt defends drones but ignores the real issues
General the Lord Dannatt’s essay defends use of armed drones Amidst its reporting of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, The Telegraph published an essay on Saturday by Lord Dannatt, the former...
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New MoD document on use of drones, same old spin
After a long delay the UK MoD has produced its new doctrine publication on the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (commonly known as drones). Its predecessor, ‘The UK Approach to Unmanned Aircraft...
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