Afghan War Blog

According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) a U.S. airstrike (probably an unmanned drone) killed 15 civili...

Drone Playbook.  The Obama administration has a agreed to release a redacted version of a policy that the president issued in 2013 laying ...

SOCOM's Drones and GWOT. SOCOM is using drones (or UAVs) extensively in the Global War on Terror (yes, I still call it that). Read mo...

CIA MQ-9 Reaper Speaks Out. One drone has spoken out about the upcoming election saying that our country needs a president who supports e...

USSOCOM and Drones.  A news report provides information about how the U.S. Special Operations Command utilizes drones to do ISR and target...

Afghan Intelligence Chief Resigns. The chief of the Afghan spy agency - National Directorate of Security or NDS - has resigned amid polic...

ScanEagle UAV The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) will receive eight ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems . The drone...

Civilian Pilots for ISR Drones. The Air Force has hired civilian defense contractors to fly MQ-9 Reaper drones to help track suspected mi...

Green Beret Officer Retires After Cleared of Wrongdoing. A decorated Special Forces officer who was investigated by the Army for whistleb...

Life in Kabul Amid the Violence. Taliban attacks and bombings within the city of Kabul have increased significantly and the population is c...

Army Contractor Lost Three $500K drones.  Although only for a brief period (eight months?) an Army contracting firm lost three (maybe four...

Intel Reports on Bombing ISIS.  New intelligence reports indicate that despite one full year of bombing the Islamic State fighters in Iraq...

One of the distinct advantages of a  drone  is the amount of time it can spend over a specific geographic area. Some variants can spend 12...

Two western captives, one American and one Italian held in Pakistan by al Qaeda, were killed in a drone strike by the United States in Ja...

In early March at a Congressional Briefing, a panel of RAND experts seek to dispel some of the myths that have arisen with respect to the ...

Although the ISAF mission has ended - replaced by the Resolute Support Mission - there are still about 13,000 military personnel remaining...

Every military man's favorite news media outlet - Rolling Stone  - provides us with an article discussing the use of drones and informs...

According to senior military leaders the U.S. drone fleet is at the breaking point.  Too many missions and too few drone pilots are threate...

The U.S. Army is building a airport in the far Western corner of Texas - and it is solely for drones . The airport, located on Fort Bliss w...

A video about drones is available for viewing on the Popular Science website. The video (9 mins) is a brief film (animated) that highlights ...