WASHINGTON — The U.S. began using unmanned aerial vehicles in 2004 to target militants that were considered threats to national security. Since then, according to a variety of open sources including New America and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, between 2,400 and 4,000 people have been killed in about 421 strikes.
Few, if any, people have ever lived to talk about being hit by a Hellfire missile fired from a drone. But the new book, “Hunter Killer: Inside America's Unmanned Air War,” vividly describes the panic that drone targets experience.
