Drone warfare involves the use of "unmanned aerial vehicles" (UAVs) that are more commonly referred to as "drones." Modern drones are a twenty-first century phenomenon with a general consensus that "drone warfare" began when the United States armed the US Predator with missiles in 2001 and used it in a targeted attack in 2002. Therefore the public debate and development of academic of scholarship on modern drone warfare is only about 20 years old and is largely US-centric, but as state and non-state actors other than the US have increasingly procured and deployed drones, the literature is quickly expanding.
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