The drone war is a way to make the war on terror something that, like, flies at ten thousand feet instead of 30 thousand. In practice, among the largest rationals for drone usage in pakistan are force protection in afghanistan. It's a kind of crazy thing in american life more generally, that air strikes are not part of a continuum of military action, but substitutes for it.
Episode two of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Obama, ISIS, and the Sustainable War.
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