The Pros And Cons Of Drone Warfare

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Kenneth Anderson, a professor of international law at American University, wrote an article about drones saying. “Drone warfare offers ethical advantages, allowing for increased discrimination in time, manner, and targeting not available via any other comparable weapon platform. As such it lends civilians in the path of hostilities vastly greater protection than does any other fighting tool. Drone warfare is an honorable attempt to seek out terrorists and insurgents who hide among civilians” (Anderson 15). That claim is quite the opposite of Chris Woods who goes on in his article to say. “CIA-controlled Predators and Reapers have been bombing Pakistan’s tribal areas since June 2004. According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism… 330
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