Bryan William Jones photo.
I’m quoted in Guy Taylor’s piece on the prospects for a U.S. drone campaign against the Lord’s Resistance Army in Congo:
“At first glance, I doubt that Congo is a good venue for a drone campaign for reasons of terrain,” said Axe, who added that while drone censors capable of penetrating the extremely dense tree canopy offered by the forests of Central Africa do exist, they are “fairly rare and very expensive.”
“This is still one of the places where the fighting needs to be done by people, up close,” he said. “The terrain is nothing like the areas where drones have been used successfully in East Africa, Central Asia or Iraq.”
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