By Avery Conner In 2011, drone history was in the making. Commonly known and debated almost entirely for military use overseas, there was a switch in focus to homeland security in June when a Predator drone was used to help police arrest civilians in North Dakota in what “was hailed at the time as the […]
By Zachary Bastiani The use of drone strikes is a failure at almost every level. Drone strikes fail at killing targets without leaving civilian casualties. The targets that drone strikes kill are often the wrong targets. Drone strikes have failed to prevent terrorism. Drone strikes are the wrong tool to use to win the war; […]
FCC Investigates Stingray Spies While DAPL Works in Secret at Standing Rock Georgianne Nienaber November 2, 2016 (Huffington Post) A ban on drones in the airspace around the Dakota Access Pipeline construction area was lifted Tuesday, November 1st. The resulting footage is a lot of construction, and a drill site with a scenic view less […]
By Cameron Shonnard As the war on terror has grown larger, new means of warfare have continued to be developed by the United States military and the government agencies it works with (predominately the CIA) in order to best protect the development of democracy in foreign nations. Through their actions of attacking and fighting to […]
Report warns of ISIS developing drones for chemical attacks (Jamie Crawford, 10/20/2016) According to a report from the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the US Military Academy at West Point, in an attempt to develop and implement new uses for drone technology in warfare at least four terrorist groups have programs in place to find […]