Drones: An Ethical Form Of Warfare

The debate of whether or not drones are an ethical form of warfare can be viewed from many standpoints. For the sake of my argument I will focus in on the fact that drones cause less civilian causalities and how it is able to save more lives while still conducting warfare. This paper will discuss the ratios of civilian causticities in drone strikes compared to traditional forms of warfare. I will also discuss the ethics of using drones and the effect it has on civilians and the public image of the U.S and other western nations. Lastly I will compare drone warfare to other forms of warfare used in recent history to justify the ethical use of drone warfare as well as how it has altered modern warfare and saves lives by removing soldiers
Some claim that drone strikes killing innocent civilians is leading to more people joining terrorist organizations to fight western powers. While this may be true the terrorists will always have a battle cry against western and foreign powers. The terrorists claim that those who uses drones are "cowards" and it is shameful we do not send our soldiers to fight them. However if you look back to a decade ago in Iraq when we did have Marines doing night raids in villages searching for IED's and those that make them , we did not have the best public image either. During these raids the doors would be kicked in and soldiers would pile inside and line up and separate the women and men to search and interrogate the men of the homes about terrorist activates. This happened late at night and could cause terror to innocent civilians in the sanctuary of their own home. A man being yelled at by an American Marine in front of his wives and family is shameful and demoralizing in their culture and these men could still be detained even for having too much wire around the house making him a possible bomb maker. The main objective of these raids were in hopes to have terrorists take fire at U.S soldiers on the ground in order to allow U.S personnel to engage under their proper rules of engagement. Also in Iraq there we videos leaked of U.S marines unloading rounds into a mosque after being frustrated and a famous video, released by WikiLeaks, of an Apache Helicopter attacks that allow you to hear U.S soldiers begging for permission to engage individuals that had ,what appeared to be, a RPG and other men with AK-47's. After sending ground soldiers in to secure the area shortly after a child was found injured and sent to a hospital by the Iraqi Army. Reports later found out these men were journalists for Reuters and that what they had slung over their