Colonel Charles W. Manley pilots a training simulator for the US Air Force’s MQ-1 Predator, at the March Air Reserve Base in California.
(File 2008/Associated Press)
The new fog of war
A condition for pilots: ‘existential conflict’
Colonel Charles W. Manley pilots a training simulator for the US Air Force’s MQ-1 Predator, at the March Air Reserve Base in California.
(File 2008/Associated Press)
Little is known about the psychological impact of the US drone war on the pilots who steer the unmanned weapons through the skies of Afghanistan and Pakistan from the safety of a military base in the Nevada desert.
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