Ethical Use Of Drones Research Paper

Drones are an unethical way to wage war and should for the most part stopped being used or should have stricter restrictions. Drones are the cause of many civilian deaths in iraq since they use missiles. They allow the military to better hide secret missions from the public. They save families of americans but take the lives of many other families in the places they attack. In conclusion we should not allow drones to have the free reign that they do with the ability to attack large cities just because of a few terrorist First we have to state that drones with the use of explosives cause too much collateral damage. Most drones use a state of the art missile known as a hellfire missile, it is a laser guided missile with a large blast area. The problem that arises with this is that we cannot perfectly predict the damage that will be cause, many times in city environments you would think the missile would take down one building but they have the capability to destroy a block with one strike. With this power we find that the casualties of civilians will rise. Drones should either get larger restrictions as to where they can fire or we need to create new missiles that are just made to damage single buildings. …show more content…
There were reports of drones strikes in places like yemen and somalia which have to correlation to terrorist in iraq or afghanistan. This was only discovered due to a large number of missile explosions with no actual bombs being placed or evidence of bombs. This is a large concern since it allows our government to do things like this which can be considered acts of war without any punishment and say this is reported in a 1st world nation the results could be deadly. It helps come to the conclusion of should drones be used at all when the possibility of war is at