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Why Military Dreams Fail -- and Why It Doesn't Matter

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Tom Engelhardt

Robot war. It just couldn't be cooler, could it? Especially if the only blood you spill is the other guy's, since our "pilots" are flying those planes from thousands of miles away. So why am I not excited?

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"Pretend Secrecy" Shields the White House from a Drone Missile Debate

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

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Sanjeev Bery

It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.

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The Costs of Drone Strikes

Lisa Schirch | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Lisa Schirch

No matter the outcome of President Obama's deliberations about US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the tactic of using unmanned drone strikes should be taken off the table.

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Ilyas Kashmiri And Nazimuddin, Militant Leaders, Killed By U.S. Strikes, Says Pakistan

AP | MUNIR AHMAD and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles are believed to have killed an al-Qaida operations chief and a top Uzbek militant in northwest Pakistan, officials sai...

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U.S. Missile Kills 4 In Pakistan; 18 Die In Stampede

AP | RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

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MIR ALI, Pakistan — A missile fired from a suspected unmanned U.S. drone slammed into a car in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan bor...

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Pakistan Drone Attacks Kill At Least 10

Al Jazeera English | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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At least 10 people have been killed after a suspected US drone fired missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region, Pakistani intelligence has said...

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American Drone Attacks Vs. The Pakistani Offensive

Mona Sarika | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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Mona Sarika

While Pakistanis acknowledge the effectiveness of drone attacks in killing militants, the resultant civilian deaths seem to be the determining factor for the lack of support from Pakistanis.

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Drones, Torture, Detention Show What US Intelligence Isn't Doing

Frank Naif | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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Frank Naif

Repeating past glories and thinking inside the bureaucratic box explain how CIA chiefs chose to keep the focus on drones and detentions.

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Pakistan Drone Attack Secrecy Hides Abuses

Inter Press Service | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's refusal to share with other agencies even ...

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Pakistan Drone Attacks Guided By Planted 'Chips'

Wired | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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It sounds like a tinfoil hat nightmare, come to life: tiny electronic homing beacons, guiding CIA killer drones to their targets. But local residents ...

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Pakistan Denies Agreement With U.S. On Drones

Reuters | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

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Pakistan denied on Friday that it had an agreement with the United States under which it could request that Washington send surveillance drones over p...

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McChrystal Choice Suggests Special Ops Strikes Will Continue

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

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Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, May 12 (IPS) - The choice of Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal to become the new U.S. commander in Afghan...

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Striking the Right Balance: The Utility of Drone Attacks in AfPak

Sam Black | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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Sam Black

Finding a way to conduct effective tactical counter-terrorism operations without compromising counterinsurgency in Pakistan or Afghanistan should be a U.S. priority.

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Taliban Use Human Shields Against Drone Attacks: Time

Time | Posted 05.29.2009 | World

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For Taliban commanders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, death often arrives without warning from the skies, on missiles fired by U.S. Predator a...

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Pakistan: US Drone Attacks Weaken Government's Hold

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON, Apr 15 (IPS) - The U.S. programme of drone aircraft strikes against higher-ranking officials of al Qaeda and allied militant organisati...

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Terminator Planet

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

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Tom Engelhardt

As you watch the Terminator movie, actual unmanned aerial vehicles armed with Hellfire missiles will be patrolling our expanding global battlefields, hunting down human beings.

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Pakistani Taliban Move Into New Areas Amid Continued US Drone Attacks

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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Pakistani Taliban have moved into a new area in Pakistan, clashing with villagers and police in a mountain valley about 100 km (60 miles) from the cap...

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Pakistan: Suspected US Missiles Kill 12 Militants

AP | KATHY GANNON and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — The son of a poor potato farmer who once worked as a fitness instructor has grown into one of the most powerful militant leaders alo...

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White House Not Ruling Out Troops In Pakistan

Wired | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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President Obama has just laid out his new war strategy. And he's made it clear that the fight is both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. So I asked Dennis M...

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Obama Continuing 'Robot War' In Pakistan

Wired | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

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Washington and Islamabad are "drawing up a fresh list of terrorist targets for Predator drone strikes" in Pakistan, according to the Wall Street Journ...

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Suspected US Drone Attack Kills 6 In Pakistan

Dawn | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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WANA: Six foreign militants were killed in a suspected US drone strike in South Waziristan, television reports quoted sources as saying on Wednesday....

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Pakistani Casualties In U.S. Drone Strike Rises

AFP | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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The number killed in a suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan rose to 24 on Friday, most of them Taliban militants, according to local offi...

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Pakistan Drone Strike Kills At Least 12

Al Jazeera | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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At least 12 people in Pakistan, including suspected al-Qaeda fighters, have been killed in a missile attack thought to have been carried out by an unm...

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The Imperial Unconscious

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, US Drone Missiles, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Af-Pak, Taliban, Air Force Drones, Drones, Leon Panetta, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

We don't find it strange to have 16 intelligence agencies, running "covert wars" in tribal borderlands, flying unmanned drones over those borderlands, destroying those in camera view.

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Airstrike kills 4 in Basra, 2 die in Sadr City clashes

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — Clashes with Shiite militiamen flared in two cities Wednesday as a U.S. drone fired two missiles in Basra and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops...

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