Unmanned aerial warfare: Flight of the drones | The Economist: "SEPTEMBER 30th Anwar al-Awlaki and several of his al-Qaeda colleagues stopped their pickup truck on a remote, dusty road deep inside Yemen’s interior. He can have had only a split second to realise what was about to happen. But the missile strike that killed al-Qaeda’s most effective propagandist was no real surprise. It was just the latest example of the way America’s armed Predator and Reaper drones are changing the terms of combat with the country’s enemies, leaving them able to run but with nowhere to hide.
American officers, with their passion for acronyms, prefer not to call the machine that killed al-Awlaki a drone."

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American officers, with their passion for acronyms, prefer not to call the machine that killed al-Awlaki a drone."
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