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I think so.
Also:
Between 2009 and 2015, out of 473 strikes between 64–116 non-combatant deaths occurred. However during that period, the Obama Administration did count all military-age males in strike zones as combatants unless explicit intelligence exonerated them posthumously.
The argument for the drone policy is that it tends to kill fewer people than air raids and lets face it, the US was never going to just walk away...
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Not that I'm defending unaccountable death from the skies, but wouldn't a lot of that increase be down to drones getting better?
I wonder how the number of air / ground strikes would have changes, had there been no drones.
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Probably the technology matured around the same time, so you could wonder if there was a commensurate reduction in other (dumber?) types of strikes.
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Stonehedge
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Yeah this is true, I still think Bush and Cheney are notable outliers in the international crime stakes tho. Wars and assassinations are the norm for America, but state sanctioned torture / and on that scale - was relatively novel.