The Pros And Cons Of Unmanned Drones

The long lasting conflicts between groups of people separated by beliefs have been an important and prominent part of history since the very beginning. Deep, rooted and religious philosophies have produced disagreements and battles that have shaped the cultures and peoples of the world globally. Perhaps there is an inevitability of these conflicts; an inexplicably unseen reason to war with another group of people whose way of life is so contradictory to one’s own. Because of this, war itself seems an apparent primal part of human nature. The want and need to eradicate those who oppose your way of life, even if it requires the loss of your own life. Despite this contradiction, war has been fueled by backings of economic, political, social,

More specifically, there now methods to very violently remove someone from this Earth from hundreds of miles away. Unmanned drones are in this day and age, something that have added an entirely new aspect of war and fighting. Drones are an effective way to combat terrorism overseas without putting direct American lives at stake. In the simplest terms, they are very large, very expensive remote control airplanes with missiles and bombs capable of destroying entire enemy compounds, or performing reconnaissance in any reachable part of the world. They are operated by a man or woman in a chair with a few controls and monitors from hundreds of thousands of miles away in Nevada and Virginia. This person is far from harm’s way, and in fact may have never seen anyone that they are attempting to take the lives of anywhere else than a screen a few short inches from their faces. Drone strike have been increasing popular in the past eight years under the Obama administration especially. Upon election, in fact three days after initial inauguration, President Obama increased the CIA’s drone program, drastically enlarging the frequency of offensive drone strikes overseas. 2009 alone saw fifty-three reported strikes, which is more than the total reported amount during the entire Bush administration (Ofek). Hundreds of drones are used worldwide today, with a majority of the ones utilized in the Middle East based out of a secret base somewhere in Pakistan. Whether these drones are owned by the CIA themselves, or by the United States Air Force is unknown, along with the official amount of drones the United States government has to employ. Despite this, there is no shortage of recourses, especially for the United States, when it comes to drone operations