Are Drones Creating a 21st Century Arms Race?

The international market for deadly drone technology is heating up as more and more governments, from Israel to China, moving to get a piece of the new weapon of choice in the 21st century. States are eager for the stealthy, deadly, and relatively cheap unmanned aerial vehicles even as the legality of the weapon is not yet clear. Are we heading for a new sort of arms race?

Read the whole story from Andreas Lorenz, Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Gregor Peter Schmitz at Der Spiegel. 

Author: John Glaser

John Glaser writes for Antiwar.com.