The US hasn't been officialy "at war" in a long time. I think the last one was World War II.
> We do not deploy F-35s to assassinate people in Pakistan.
Of course not: F-35s are more expensive to operate and I'm not sure they've even attained the level of readiness to attempt such a mission.
If you believe that then how you call the military operations in recent years and present?
Also if there is no war then people that are killed are just murders/assassinations this murders makes the scientists not want to get involved
>> The US hasn't been officialy "at war" in a long time. I think the last one was World War II.
> If you believe that then how you call the military operations in recent years and present?
Wars, for the most part.
My point is there's no meaningful difference between dropping a JDAM on a particular target with an F-35 or dropping a JDAM on the same target with a drone.
Either way, you dropped a JDAM on a target. Doing it with a drone doesn't magically make the result worse or different somehow.
I disagree. I would call operations conducted with military equipment and with the participation of military personnel (e.g. USAF pilots) military operations.
"under the operational control of the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division". Feel free to click in and read what SAD does, these are assassinations, not military actions. Remember that military actions are something a government does officially, and assassinations are something denied and covered up for over a decade.
"The drones are flown by United States Air Force pilots located at an unnamed base in the United States. US Department of Defense armed drones, which also sometimes take part in strikes on terrorist targets, are flown by US Air Force pilots located at Creech Air Force Base and Holloman Air Force Base."