New perspective on drone warfare
by Sam Roggeveen
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7 May 2010 10:45AM
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Here's a bracing contribution to our drone warfare debate.
In the margin's of yesterday's ICG Asia Briefing conference in Singapore I talked with Samina Ahmed, ICG's Project Director for South Asia. She argues that much of what we hear about the effects of US drone strikes in the FATA areas of Pakistan is wrong — it doesn't drive locals into the arms of extremists, in fact quite the opposite.
