Stephan:   Drones certainly have a surveillance and communications role. As I have written on SR and elsewhere the frequent use of them for killing is both immoral, given the number of people who are killed by these strikes, and strategically ill-conceived. Think about it. You are lying in bed asleep when a drone kills everyone in your family and the neighbors on each side. You know it is American. How do you and your surviving neighbors feel about America, and Americans do  you think? Can you imagine a better recruiting tool for terrorism. Don't believe me. Here is what former drone pilots say.