Opinion Essay: Drones reshape modern warfare

by Brandon Jackson

Since recorded human history began, 15,000 violent clashes and approximately 600 significant wars have taken place. However, drones are the new kids on the block as far as the modernization of war.

Although most conflicts do not resort to violence in the international system, war has become a regular feature in international politics because of the size and diversity of the world. Post-WWI, there have been over four billion global casualties due to warfare.

But in current events, we see war changing before our eyes in how and why it is being fought. In both World War I and World War II, conventional warfare was how conflicts that erupted into violence were solved. It was simply army versus army.

Now war has changed at its very foundation.

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