By David Kepes
Though drone strikes in Pakistan have declined sharply this year, the recent attacks on al-Qaeda fighters in Yemen have brought attention to the United States’ expanding and secretive campaign.
Incidents like these have inspired the fear that drones make it easier to not only conduct but perhaps even go to war. This general argument is intuitive and moves in three broad steps: drones are appealing because they save the lives that would otherwise be committed to action; dollars are generally easier to expend than human lives; and because if we can go to war for less, we will.
