Drones Evolve Into Weapon In Age Of Terror -- Wall Street Journal
Intelligence Services Overcome Philosophical, Legal Misgivings Over Targeted Killings; Pilotless Attacks Doubled in 2010.
The Sept. 11 attacks triggered a revolution in U.S. spycraft as the intelligence services shattered a longstanding taboo by launching an expansive program of targeted killings by remote control.
The intelligence failures that preceded 9/11 rocked U.S. intelligence, prompting an expansion of surveillance in the U.S., and spawning new communications-intercept programs overseas.
But the greatest shift both in tactics and mindset has been the embrace of the pilotless, hunter-killer aircraft known as drones.
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My Comment: What can only imagine what the next ten years will bring.
