Chris Cole - Archive

UK Planning for Strikes Against ISIS in Afghanistan Says Head of Royal Air Force By Chris Cole, August 31, 2021
CAA Opens UK Skies to Military Drones By Chris Cole, August 05, 2021
British MoD Report: Embrace of “Human Augmentation” to Fully Exploit Drones and A.I. for Warfighting By Chris Cole, June 14, 2021
‘All The Warfare Of The Future’: Drones, New Technology and the Integrated Review By Chris Cole, February 18, 2021
General Atomics Plan Flights of Its New Drone in UK – Safety Fears Rerouted Previous Flights in the US By Chris Cole, February 16, 2021
UK Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Writes to Defence Secretary on the UK’s Approach to LAWS By Chris Cole, December 02, 2020
Announcing a New Initiative: UK Drone Watch By Chris Cole, November 03, 2020
Drone Wars at Ten #3: What’s Next? A Peek at the Future By Chris Cole, June 08, 2020
UK Rapidly Developing New Drone Programmes: “Mosquito” and “Swarming” By Chris Cole, September 04, 2019
Will the UK Continue to Launch Strikes Against ISIS in Syria? By Chris Cole, April 02, 2019
Britain’s Air and Drone War in Syria By Chris Cole, February 13, 2019
General Atomics Bring in BAE Systems to Lobby for ‘Protector’ Drone to Fly in UK By Chris Cole, January 28, 2019
Cost of UK Air and Drone Strikes in Iraq and Syria Reach £1.75 Billion By Chris Cole, July 20, 2018
Falling Short: An Analysis of the Reporting of UK Drone Strikes by the MoD By Chris Cole, July 13, 2018
U.K. Ministry of Defense Accidentally Reveals British Reaper Drones Firing Thermobaric Missiles into Syria By Chris Cole, May 04, 2018
Revealed: Internal Discussions Between Ministry of Defence and Regulators on Flying Predator Drones in UK By Chris Cole, February 15, 2018
“Thinking War Is Bloodless Is a Mistake.” Talking Drones and Remote War with Air Marshall Bagwell By Chris Cole, January 09, 2018
2018: British Armed Drone Operations Reach a Crossroads By Chris Cole, January 02, 2018
Perpetual War: UK’s Armed Drones to Stay Deployed Beyond Campaign Against ISIS By Chris Cole, November 08, 2017
After Ten Years, Time to Ground Britain’s Reaper Drones By Chris Cole, October 13, 2017
British Air and Drone Strikes in Iraq and Syria. UK Reaper Drone Ops By Chris Cole, September 07, 2017
Where Are Britain’s Armed Drones? Legal Procedure Launched against UK Ministry of Defence By Chris Cole, July 11, 2017
UK Drone Killings: PM must Publish Intelligence Committee Report By Chris Cole, April 20, 2017
Where are Britain’s Armed Drones? Deployed in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan By Chris Cole, November 21, 2016
“Strike Enabled” Armed Drones and UAVs, A Multibillion Dollar Export Business By Chris Cole, October 26, 2016
The Globalization of Drone Warfare: Towards a US-Led “International Control Regime” on Armed Drones? By Chris Cole, September 09, 2016
Drone Warfare, Remote Killing in Northern Syria. What We Know about the Khan Killing By Chris Cole, August 23, 2016
European Countries’ Use of Military Drones: Deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Sub-Saharan Africa By Chris Cole, July 29, 2016
British Air Strikes in Iraq and Syria increase by 85%, More than 15,000 Coalition Strikes By Chris Cole, July 11, 2016
“Spontaneous Warfare” against Iraqi and Syrian Civilians: Only Five Percent of British Drone and Air Strikes Are Pre-Planned By Chris Cole, June 18, 2016
The Drone War against Iraq and Syria, 12,000 “Humanitarian” Air Strikes by US-led Coalition By Chris Cole, May 29, 2016
500 Days of British Drone Attacks in Iraq and Syria, “Against ISIS” or “Against Civilians”? By Chris Cole, March 07, 2016
“Western Insanity”: Momentum Grows to Bomb Libya Again … This Time against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) By Chris Cole, January 30, 2016
British Drone and Air Strikes in 2015 against Iraq, Syria By Chris Cole, January 12, 2016
A-Z of Drones 2015: “Reducing Terrorism”, Targeted Assassinations, UAV Engines, Whistleblowers By Chris Cole, January 01, 2016
A-Z of Drones 2015. Israeli Drones, the “Killer Robots” Campaign, Obama’s Promises By Chris Cole, December 31, 2015
A-Z of Drones 2015: Civilian Casualties, Afghanistan, Gaza By Chris Cole, December 30, 2015
“Smart Weapons Systems”: Are we being Misguided about “Precision Strikes”? By Chris Cole, December 05, 2015
British Drone Strikes in Afghanistan by Province. Evidence of War Crimes By Chris Cole, April 02, 2015
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq and Syria: The Dirty Consequences of Our “Clean Wars” By Chris Cole, December 05, 2014
Rise of the Reapers: A Brief History of Drones By Chris Cole, October 09, 2014
UK-Israel “Watchkeeper” Killer Drones Deployed to Afghanistan By Chris Cole, September 30, 2014
Are US Drone Strikes Good for International Stability? By Chris Cole, June 05, 2014
Drone Wars: Surveying the Home Front By Chris Cole, June 02, 2014
Where are British Reaper Drones Heading after Afghanistan? By Chris Cole, May 13, 2014
The Escalation of Drone Warfare in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Africa By Chris Cole, March 10, 2014
Drone Wars: UK Becomes New Pakistan? Live Drone Training Flights Target Local Residents By Chris Cole, February 24, 2014
“Future Combat Air Systems”: UK-France Military Declaration Reveals Development of “Combat Drones” By Chris Cole, February 06, 2014
UK-French Combat Drone Project Gets More Funding By Chris Cole, February 04, 2014
Israel and the Drone Wars By Chris Cole, January 10, 2014
The A-Z of Drones 2013: Drone Proliferation and Protests against Drone Strikes By Chris Cole, December 31, 2013
The A-Z of Drones 2013 By Chris Cole, December 24, 2013
Drone Warfare and International Law: Findings of U.N. Reports on Extrajudicial and Arbitrary Executions By Chris Cole, October 26, 2013
Historic U.K. Trial. Anti-drones Protesters Praised by Judge. Illegality of Drone Warfare Upheld By Chris Cole, October 10, 2013
Anti-Drone Warfare Trial: “Conspiracy Charges” Dropped. “Waddington Six” Peace Activists Charged with “Criminal Damage” By Chris Cole, October 01, 2013
Drone Warfare in Afghanistan Challenged in UK Court. British Ministry of Defense on the “Defensive” By Chris Cole, September 20, 2013
“Automated Killing” and Drone Warfare By Chris Cole, September 01, 2013
Protest against UK Drone Base at Waddington By Chris Cole, June 11, 2013
Obama Speaks: Drone Warfare and Counterterrorism By Chris Cole, May 27, 2013
Drone Proliferation in Europe: Domestic Surveillance and Unmanned Warfare By Chris Cole, May 20, 2013