America's drone wars have gotten deadlier under Trump, but the Trump-first news cycle makes highlighting the human cost extremely difficult.
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Trump's not bringing the troops home. He's been haphazardly deploying more troops, drones, and dollars abroad, while waging a shadow foreign policy for his own benefit.
Throughout the war on terror, the U.S. shattered norms on unmanned execution. Now the technology is spreading throughout the region.
Within a few short years, crucial warfighting decisions — even whether to launch a nuclear weapon — could be made by autonomous machines.
The Trump administration has shifted from extermination to annihilation in its war against the Islamic State.
From Duterte to Trump, a new crop of populist leaders are reviving a tried and true method of demonstrating leadership — killing people.
This year's lowlights from world politics, the culture wars, and the military-industrial complex.
The Islamic State already uses drones for surveillance.
As leaked documents obtained by the Intercept reveal, the drone war is likely creating more terrorists than it's killing.
The impulse to "boldly go" has gotten humanity into a mess of trouble.