How will the US utilize drones in ISIS plan?
With the recent escalation in military intervention in the Middle East against ISIS, we take a look at the role of drones.
Did the role of drones affect how politicians approach the commitment to military involvement? How are drones helping/hurting us abroad?
Learn more about drones:
• Air Campaign Against ISIS to Target Leaders and Seized U.S. Weapons
Obama will make the final determination on which ISIS officials are targeted, placing their names on a presidential "kill list" for drone attacks after receiving briefings and recommendations from senior advisers. The priority will be leaders who want to carry out attacks on U.S. interests. (NBC News)
• Air strikes, drones and advisers: the new template for America's counter-terror fight
When children in Yemen try to ignore their bedtimes, their parents have a new warning to scare them into obedience: a drone will come for them. Farea al-Muslimi, a young Yemeni activist and journalist whose hometown was subjected to a drone strike, shared that anecdote with a Senate panel last year. He meant to impress upon US politicians what he called the "psychological fear and terror" Yemenis feel from a campaign the Obama administration is now citing as a model for its unfolding war against Islamic State (Isis). (The Guardian)
• U.S. Jets and Drones Attack Militants in Iraq, Hoping to Stop Advance (New York Times)
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