The View From the Wreckage

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/09/25/do-drone-attacks-do-more-harm-than-good/the-view-from-the-wreckage

The View From the Wreckage

James Jeffrey, a journalist, served with the British army for nine years, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo.
Updated September 26, 2012, 10:23 AM
The reality of drone attacks — or any aerial attacks — became clear to me during my 2009 tour with the British Army in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. A forward air controller directed a precision strike by a jet — as accurate as a drone — during a fire fight with the Taliban.