Catherine Connolly

DCU

Dr Catherine Connolly is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University

Technological precision and normative precision are deliberately conflated in the rhetoric surrounding drone strikes.

Why the term 'precise' masks the real damage weapons cause

The use of the term 'precision' deliberately masks the fact that civilians are still killed in substantial numbers, whether by drone strikes or manned aerial …

Drones • 11 Jun 19

Graffiti protesting against US drone strikes in Yemen. Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images

How US drone strikes still bring death and destruction from above

Donald Trump is the latest US president to use deadly drone strikes to continue the war on terror

Drones • 25 Mar 19

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