An X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft is launched for the first time off an aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia (REUTERS/Jason Reed).
Opinion
Finally, Obama Breaks His Silence on Drones
May 23, 2013, Peter W. Singer
Over the last four years and under President Obama’s leadership, U.S. civilian intelligence agencies have carried out a series of not-so-secret covert operations on a huge scale. By finally speaking out on his national security policies, Peter Singer writes that the president has the chance to steer the long-term growth and nature of the drone wars toward more positive ends.