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The new fog of war

A condition for pilots: ‘existential conflict’

By Farah Stockman

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  February 05, 2012

Little is known about the psychological impact of the US drone war on the pilots who steer the unmanned weapons through the skies of Afghanistan and Pakistan from the safety of a military base in the Nevada desert.

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