Introduction

This week we continue to see the fall out from the us. Lethal drone strikes in afghanistan during that hectic withdrawal last month. And ion has shown that it killed ten afghan civilians. So i thought i'd bring this episode back because it puts drones and drone warfare into its appropriate historical context. We go all the way back to the first world war, to the first uncrude aerial systems,. The aerial torpedoes that were invented to reduce the cost to american life in war. To do warfare at arm's length, and, you could say, by remote control. That technology and the ambitions behind it all the way through to the present day. Here's me and