Why Drones Work
- Content Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Foreign Affairs
- Volume
- 92
- Issue Number
- 4
- Publication Date
- July/August 2013
- Institution
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Abstract
- The Obama administration relies on drones for one simple reason: they work. Drone strikes have devastated al Qaeda at little financial cost, at no risk to U.S. forces, and with fewer civilian casualties than many alternative methods would have caused.
- Political Geography
- United States