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18. Greg Miller, “CIA to Expand Drone Fleet Officials Say,” Washington Post , October 19, 2012.

19. “Flight of the Drones.”

20. Rachel Martin, “Drone Pilots: The Future of Aerial Warfare,” Morning Edition , National Public Radio, November 29, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142858358/drone-pilots-the-future-of-aerial-warfare.

21. John Robb, “The Future of Drone Warfare,” Global Guerillas (blog), December 21, 2011, http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/12/drone-bonjwas.html.

22. James Dao, “Drone Pilots Are Found to Get Stress Disorders Much as Those in Combat Do,” New York Times , February 23, 2012.

23. “Drones and the Man.”

24. Barnes, “More Drones, Fewer Troops.”

25. “American Spy Drones Swarm in Droves over Afghanistan,” RT , October 20, 2011, http://rt.com/usa/news/afghanistan-us-drones-nato-243/.

26. Ackerman and Shachtman, “Almost 1 in 3 US Warplanes.”

27. Scott Shane, “Coming Soon: The Drone Arms Race,” New York Times , October 8, 2011.

28. Nick Hopkins, “Afghan Civilians Killed by RAF Drone,” Guardian , July 5, 2011.

29. Ibid.

30. “Taranis: The 143 Million Jet That Can Hit Targets on Another Continent,” Daily Mail , July 13, 2010.

31. “United Arab Emirates Set to buy Predator Drones,” Los Angeles Times , February 22, 2013.

32. “Pentagon Plans to Spend $37 Billion on Drones,” Allgov.com, January 17, 2012, http://www.allgov.com/news/where-is-the-money-going/pentagon-plans-to-spend-37-billion-on-drones?news=843895.

33. Ibid.

34. “Armed UAV Operations 10 Years On,” Stratfor , January 12, 2012, http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/armed-uav-operations-10-years.

35. Anwar Iqbal, “US Plans 75pc Increase in Drone Operations,” Dawn , February 3, 2010, http://archives.dawn.com/archives/44399.

36. Ibid.

37. Robert Johnson, “The Navy’s Modified X-47B Unmanned Drone Makes China’s ‘Carrier Killing’ Missiles Obsolete,” Business Insider , November 27, 2012, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-navys-modified-x-47b-unmanned-drone-makes-chinas-carrier-killing-missiles-obsolete-2012-11.

38. “Soon a Drone That Can Stay in the Air for 4 Days,” Times of India , November 1, 2011.

39. David Hambling, “Air Force Completes Killer Micro-Drone Project,” Danger Room (blog), Wired , January 5, 2010, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/killer-micro-drone/.

40. “US Army Orders First Suicide Drones,” Innovation News Daily , September 6, 2011.

41. “Droning On,” Ottawa Citizen , January 12, 2012.

42. Nick Turse, “Investigation Finds US Military Drones Have Flown Close to 3 Million Hours,” AlterNet , November 1, 2011, http://www.alternet.org/story/152925/investigation_finds_u.s._military_drones_have_flown_close_to_3_million_hours.

43. “Faster Meaner Apaches Allow Pilots to Control Drones in Battle,” Military.com, November 2, 2011.

44. “Predator B Drones Now Used to Monitor US Mexico Border,” KSBY.com, September 1, 2010, http://www.ksby.com/news/predator-b-drones-now-used-to-monitor-u-s-mexico-border/#.

45. Associated Press, “FBI: Mass. Man Had ‘Mission’ against Pentagon,” CBS News, November 4, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57319111/fbi-mass-man-had-mission-against-pentagon/.

46. Scott Wilson, “In Gaza, Life Shaped by Drones,” Washington Post , December 3, 2011.

47. W. J. Hennigan, “The Air Force Buys an Avenger, Its Biggest and Fastest Armed Drone,” Los Angeles Times , December 31, 2011.

48. Roggio and Mayer, “Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan.”

49. Willie Jones, “US Air Force Drone Touches Down amid Questions,” Tech Talk (blog), IEEE Spectrum , December 6, 2010, http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/military/us-air-force-drone-touches-down-amid-questions.

50. Adam Entous, “NATO to Acquire Fleet of Unmanned Drones,” Wall Street Journal , February 4, 2012.

51. “NATO to Build Drone Base in Sicily,” Malta Star , February 4, 2012.

52. Scott Wilson and Jon Cohen, “Poll Finds Broad Support for Obama’s Counterterrorism Policies,” Washington Post , February 7, 2012.

53. Tony Cappacio, “Pentagon to Increase Stock in High Altitude Drones,” Business Week , February 5, 2010.

54. Jen Dimascio, “Pentagon Preps Attack of Drones,” Politico , February 4, 2010, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32492.html.

55. “Drones in Houston Help Fight Iraq, Afghanistan Wars,” Houston Chronicle , June 28, 2010.

56. It could be argued that Israel is already flying its killer drones abroad when it attacks Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

57. David Cortright, “The Scary Prospect of Global Drone Warfare,” CNN, October 19, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/opinion/cortright-drones.

58. W. J. Hennigan. “Civilian Use of Tiny Drones May Soon Fly in the US,” Los Angeles Times , November 27, 2011.

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2. U.S. Air Force, “MQ-9 Reaper,” fact sheet, January 5, 2012, http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=6405.

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