Trump’s six strikes so far this fall on boats in international waters, killing a reported 26 people, echo a pattern of identifying a “terrorist enemy” and employing means of aerial weapons to…
Category: Covert Drone War
The use of Predator and Reaper drones (unmanned flying vehicles that are often armed with video-guided missiles) by the US military and CIA is a largely untold story of the “Global War on Terror / Global Contingency Operation” – yet has caused thousands of deaths in Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of whom are women and children.
TYPES OF KILLER DRONES and AI TOOLS
by Nick Mottern This appendix discusses the primary categories of killer drones now in use; where some have been, or are in now, in use; and their manufacturers. These are representative…
ARGUMENTS FOR THE BANNING OF WEAPONIZED DRONES
by Nick Mottern Introduction The chart below, provided by Drone Wars UK, shows which nations have large, reusable, weaponized drones. So-called “suicide” drones, that crash into their targets and explode, and…
The Killer Drones Spread
Debra Sweet | Firday June 9, 2023 We said in 2021, “When George W. Bush, then Commander in Chief of the year-old U.S. ‘war on terror,’ authorized a Predator drone strike on…
Home of the “Hell Hounds,” Whiteman AFB drone squadron ‘most lethal’ in US
Brian Terrell | October 3, 2022 Note: Brian Terrell delivered this talk at the Oct. 1 peace witness sponsored by PeaceWorksKC, at Whiteman AFB, near Knob Noster, MO. Leading up to this protest…
Reminders Of Why We Keep on Keeping On
Nick Mottern | September 28, 2022 ETHIOPIA “The Ethiopian military’s increasing use of drones to conduct airstrikes over the last year has changed the conflict landscape. In theory, drones should allow for…
Call of the Ban Killer Drones Campaign: No armed drones for the German Military
Brian Terrell | Janurary 19, 2022 Action month is January, 2022 in the run-up to the vote at the 47th Federal Delegates Conference of the Green Party on 28/29 January 2022 on…
Airstrikes allowed America to wage war with minimal risk to its troops.
Azmat Khan | December 20, 2021 Click here to read the original post in the New York Times “No civilian presence” For Ali Fathi Zeidan and his extended family, West Mosul…
The Civilian Casualty Files: Hidden Pentagon Records Reveal Patterns Of Failure In Deadly Airstrikes
Azmat Kahn | December 20, 2021 Forward by Debra Sweet: An extraordinary – as in the top half of the front page, and 5 full inside pages, with photos – investigation series…
Call for a Global Ban on Weaponized Drones
Debra Sweet | April 14, 2021 Announcing BanKillerDrones, an international grassroots campaign working to ban aerial weaponized drones and military and police drone surveillance. Our friend Nick Mottern of KnowDrones.com and other…