An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’ — The U.S. Navy was a big user of Ryan Aeronautical Q-2C target drones, and Navy carrier battle groups operating in the Gulf of Tonkin borrowed imagery from the U.S. Air Force’s operational Model 147 Lightning Bugs flying from…

An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’ — The U.S. Navy was a big user of Ryan Aeronautical Q-2C target drones, and Navy carrier battle groups operating in the Gulf of Tonkin borrowed imagery from the U.S. Air Force’s operational Model 147 Lightning Bugs flying from…

An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’ — On Dec. 17, 1965, U.S. president Lyndon Johnson met with his advisers in the White House. Johnson wanted to halt the air campaign over Southeast Asia in order to give diplomats a chance to work out some kind of peace agreement that might end the war. Secretary of Defense Bob…

An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’ — On Dec. 17, 1965, U.S. president Lyndon Johnson met with his advisers in the White House. Johnson wanted to halt the air campaign over Southeast Asia in order to give diplomats a chance to work out some kind of peace agreement that might end the war. Secretary of Defense Bob…

On Oct. 7, 2001, a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator drone flying over Afghanistan zeroed in on a building CIA analysts suspected of housing Taliban leader Mullah Omar. The Predator launched a Hellfire missile that struck a vehicle, killing several of the mullah’s bodyguards. The Predator strike was hardly the…

Anatomy of terror, on an indie film set — I’ve made several tiny horror movies. But I’ve only shot one scene that actually scared me during production. Now I’m trying to understand why. That way, I can scare my audience, too. It was May 2020. We’d made most of House Monster while socially-distanced. Actors shot their own scenes and…