by David Axe | Aug 13, 2012 | Monitor
An MQ-9 Reaper in Iraq in 2008. Photo: Air Force More secret bases. More and better unmanned warplanes. More frequent and deadly robotic attacks. Some five years after a U.S. Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flew the type’s first mission over lawless Somalia,...
by David Axe | Jun 27, 2012 | Monitor
A Ugandan soldier in Mogadishu in 2007. Photo: David Axe In the past four years, the Pentagon and State Department have forged a close, and largely unreported, alliance with the Ugandan military. A force of 120 American advisers based in Uganda provides training,...