Testimony of a French drone operator: anticipatory strikes in the Sahel
In an interview conducted for the podcast Le Collimateur (podcast of the Strategic Research Institute of the French Military School (IRSEM)), on April 9, 2021, drone pilot Lieutenant-Colonel Romain gives an account of one of the first French armed drone operations, carried out from the Niamey air base in Niger in early 2020. After about two years of French use...