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Warfare Part 2 Drones Dropping Bombs with PH Student Alex

Chapter 1 A Background of PH Student Alex 

research physiological effects drone warfare civilians targeted war on terror generation 9 years old 9/11 teenager Abu Ghraib prison abuses Iraq Afghanistan governments sell drone technology as not causing high civilian casualties

Chapter 2 how drones are used for warfare ---- drones are remotely piloted aircraft meaning that people are controlling them sitting back in the home country so the US or the UK & they fly drones that carry missiles or bombs & based on the surveillance data drones also collect they make decisions about who should be targeted then they drop these missiles or bombs onto who they think should be killed the problem with these bombs is that they'll never just hit the person they ought to hit they explode right so their kill radius with their precise bombs still 15 to 20 metres away from initial target & other bombs they use is a 500 pound bomb its called GBU well to get technical & the kill radius for that is 60 to 90 metres so if were being told thus is accurate technology that it only gets the bad guys well how do they account for that especially in a Densley populated environment you're not just getting the bad guy you're getting everyone in the vicinity & that could be 20 to 90 metres away

Chapter 3 --- how drones are used for bombing ---- another reason why we don't hear much about drone warfare cause its such technical subject & a bit hard to understand so way it works is that their are drone personal in the US in Nevada desert that the drones are operated from & with the UK use of drones from 2 air bases in Lincolnshire so they get surveillance imagery & what's called signals intelligence like phone data the drones pickup when they fly over these area so they process all that they make targeting decisions on the basis of that information & the physical drones themselves not flown from US or Uk their in US drone bases across the horn of Africa mostly Dubiety is where the biggest one is also bases in Kenya civilian populations are suffering in the US government own terms even if you argue with them on their terms its not the case of saving money its a huge infrastructure if you got 160 people working on a small drone mission that's huge its expensive pine gap plays a key part in that selection of surveillance & imagery of signals intelligence & within minutes the information is with the US we send it onto them either department of defense or the CIA so their are 2 branches conducting drone strikes other thing to say about that idea is that only 2 people are in a box operating is that its far more than 2 people for an average drone mission usually involves 3 to 4 drones their are 160 drone personal working on that mission US & UK government sell drone warfare as a way to minimize personal costs, as a down sizing operation well spend less money on staffing if we use drones but even the drones used for spying that s a bit euthanistic in a sense that they collect data which is sent to a nearby drone that is armed they are wholly complicit in the killing of people cause this is an argument you hear about Australia's insolvent using unarmed drones in Afghanistan Australia says its fine cause the drone wasn't killing anyone in that time but the info those drones collected was passed to countries operating armed drones