Kelsey Atherton has written a critical and insightful article for Responsible Statecraft on why media coverage of new developments in drone weapons, like the US drone "sword missile", can be seen as a kind of anti-news: "Focusing on the missile specifically misses everything that puts a missile in the sky, ready to be used against a human being. It constrains the...

Rachel Stohl, Vice President at the Stimson Center, has written an insightful article on the United States' planned reinterpretation of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a decades-old international agreement between states which limits the risk of WMD proliferation by imposing export restraints on potential delivery vehicles. Stohl clearly explains what the MTCR does and how it has evolved over...

The Trump administration plans to reinterprets an arms agreement in order to sell more American military drones, three defense industry executives and a U.S. official told Reuters. The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), signed in 1987 by the U.S. and other states, was developed to counter the proliferation of missiles for the delivery of all types of weapons of mass destruction...

This article was originally published on May 15, 2020 by Just Security. Last week, the Department of Defense made the claim, in its annual report on civilian casualties in conflict, that it killed no civilians in Yemen in 2019. It claimed the same in 2018. Neither year was that true. Read the full article by Abdulrasheed Al-Faqih and Kristine Beckerle on Just Security....

This roundup, curated by ReThink Media, looks at how the media is talking about drone warfare (and related topics) and what stories are being told. With little transparency from governments on this topic, this roundup aims to be as comprehensive as possible, identifying breaking news, trends, developing stories, or interesting narratives. Rethink Media also use media coverage to compile a snapshot of...

In our monthly press review, we translate, analyze and summarize news from various European publications on the issues of drones. In March 2020 the most frequent topics discussed in drone news were the use of drones in Middle East, the drone market and new technologies. You can find the publication here....

This twice weekly roundup, curated by ReThink Media, looks at how the media is talking about drone warfare (and related topics) and what stories are being told. With little transparency from governments on this topic, this roundup aims to be as comprehensive as possible, identifying breaking news, trends, developing stories, or interesting narratives. Rethink Media also use media coverage to compile a...

This twice weekly roundup, curated by ReThink Media, looks at how the media is talking about drone warfare (and related topics) and what stories are being told. With little transparency from governments on this topic, this roundup aims to be as comprehensive as possible, identifying breaking news, trends, developing stories, or interesting narratives. Rethink Media also use media coverage to compile a...