NaAlex Edney-Browne, Lisa Ling, Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2017.
Drone vatyairi vanga vachisiya US Air Force mukati rekodhi nhamba mumakore achangopfuura - nekukurumidza kupfuura vatsva vanogona kusarudzwa uye kudzidziswa. Vanotaura nezvemusanganiswa wenzvimbo yakaderera muuto, kushanda zvakanyanya uye kushungurudzika kwepfungwa.
Asi memoir itsva yakashambadzirwa nezvehondo yeAmerica yakavanzika inotadza kutaura nezve "kuwedzera kwekubuda," seimwe. yemukati Air Force memo anodana. "Drone Warrior: An Elite Soldier's Inside Account of the Hunt for America's Most Dangerous Enemies" inorondedzera makore anoda kusvika 10 ayo Brett Velicovich, aimbove nhengo yebasa rinokosha, akashandisa achishandisa drones kubatsira mauto anokosha kutsvaga uye kuronda magandanga. Zvine nyore, inoisawo kutengesa kwakaoma pachirongwa icho mauto eAir Force ari kunetsekana kuti agare akazara.
Velicovich akanyora memoir - nezvenguva yake "kuvhima nekuona muma cesspools eMiddle East" - kuratidza kuti drones "inoponesa sei hupenyu nekupa simba vanhu, zvinopesana nezvakawanda zvenyaya inoenderera inovaisa muchiedza chisina kunaka." Pane kudaro, bhuku iri, zvakanyanya, ngano ye hyper-masculine bravado uye, zvakanyanya, chidimbu chemashoko echiuto chakagadzirirwa kurerutsa kusahadzika nezvechirongwa che drone uye kuwedzera kupinza basa.
Velicovich uye munyori webhuku racho, Christopher S. Stewart, mutori wenhau weWall Street Journal, anosimbisa nhema yokuti drones michina yekuziva zvose uye yakarurama. Velicovich anowedzeredza kurongeka kwehunyanzvi, achiregeredza kutaura kuti kangani inokundikana kana kuti kukundikana kwakadaro vakauraya vanhuwo zvavo vasingaverengeki. Semuenzaniso, CIA yakauraya 76 vana uye 29 vakuru mukuedza kwayo kutora Ayman al Zawahiri, mutungamiri we Al Qaeda, uyo anonzi achiri mupenyu.
Uye zvakadaro, "Handina mubvunzo kuti tinogona kuwana chero munhu munyika," Velicovich anonyora, "zvisinei kuti akavanzwa sei." Mumwe angabvunza Velicovich kuti atsanangure rufu rwe Warren Weinstein, mugari weAmerica, uye Giovanni Lo Porto, mugari wemuItaly - vese vashandi vekubatsira vakaurayiwa neAmerican drone raini rakananga nhengo dzeAl Qaeda muPakistan.
"Taitenda kuti iyi yaive komboni yeAl Qaeda," Mutungamiri Obama vakazivisa mwedzi mitatu mushure mekuramwa, "kuti hapana vanhuwo zvavo vaivepo." Chokwadi, Air Force yakanga yamira mazana emaawa ye drone kuongorora chivakwa. Yakanga yashandisa makamera anoongorora kupisa, ayo anofanirwa kuziva kuvepo kwemunhu nekupisa kwemuviri wake kana tambo yekuona yavharika. Zvakangodaro, kuongorora kwakatadza kuona miviri miviri - Weinstein naLa Porto - vaive vakabatwa mukamuri yepasi.
Zvichida vashandi verubatsiro havana kucherechedzwa nekuti, maererano neshumo rinouya pamusoro pekugumira kweiyo drone tekinoroji yakanyorwa ne Pratap Chatterjee, mukuru mukuru weboka revarindi rinonzi CorpWatch, uye Christian Stork, makamera anofungidzira kupisa “haakwanisi kuona nomumiti uye gumbeze rakagadzikwa zvakanaka rinobvisa kupisa kwomuviri rinogonawo kuzvikanda,” uyewo “havagoni kuona mudzimba dzepasi kana kuti mudzimba dzepasi pevhu. .”
Zvakatonyanya kunyengera ndeyeye memoir kuedza kusanganisa kurwadziswa kwepfungwa kwevanoshandisa drone nevaongorori vehungwaru uye kuishandura kuita rondedzero yehushingi uye stoicism. "Ndakarwa kuti ndirambe ndakasvinura," Velicovich anonyora nezvekushanda achishaya hope. "Awa yega yega yakaparara yaive imwe awa iyo muvengi aifanira kuronga, imwe awa yaifanira kuuraya."
Enzanisa mufananidzo iwoyo nechokwadi sezvakatsanangurwa naCol. Jason Brown, mukuru we480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing. "Kuzviuraya kwedu uye fungidziro dzekuda kuzviuraya dzaive dzakakwirira kupfuura avhareji yeAir Force," Brown akaudza Washington Post pakutanga kwemwedzi uno, kutsanangura kuti nei varapi venguva yakazara vepfungwa uye vapi vezano vepfungwa vakaunzwa muchirongwa che drone. "Vakanga vakatokwira kupfuura avo vaive vatumira." Huwandu hwekuzviuraya hwadonha nekuda kwezvikwata zvehutano hwepfungwa, Brown akadaro. Basa pacharo harina kuchinja.
Iyo firimu kodzero ye "Drone Warrior" dzakatengwa anopfuura gore rapfuura, neruzhinji fanfare, by Paramount Pictures. (Iyo studio yakasarudzawo kodzero dzehupenyu kunyaya yaVelicovich.) Muchikamu chekubvuma chememoir, Velicovich anotaura kuti bhaisikopo riri kuuya richatungamirirwa nekubudiswa. Michael Bay, mugadziri wemufirimu kumashure kwe "Transformers," "Pearl Harbor" uye "Amagedhoni."
Ichi chiitiko chinofanotaurwa. The Mauto eU.S. neHollywood vagara vachinakidzwa nehukama hwehukama. Vagadziri vemafirimu vanowanzowana nzvimbo, vashandi, ruzivo uye zvishandiso zvinokweretesa zvigadzirwa zvavo "zvechokwadi." Mukudzoka, mauto anowanzo kuwana mwero wekutonga pamusoro pemaratidziro azvinoitwa.
Vakuru vePentagon nevashandi veCIA vanozivikanwa kuti vakapa zano uye vakagovanisa magwaro akasarudzika nevagadziri vemafirimu kumashure kwe "Zero Rima Makutatu," iyo Oscar-yakasarudzwa bhaisikopo iro. zvinomirirwa zvisizvo iyo CIA's gakava rekurwadzisa uye chirongwa chekushandura seyakabatsira mukutsvaga Osama bin Laden. Iyo CIA zvakare yanga iri yakabatana pakugadzirwa kwe "Argo," Ben Affleck's Oscar-akahwina ratidziro yekuti sangano iri rakanunura sei vasungwa vekuAmerica muIran.
Asi pane chimwe chinhu chakanyanya kushata pamusoro pekufarira kweHollywood kuunza vhezheni yaVelicovich yehondo ye drone kuchiratidziro chikuru. Mu "Drone Warrior," mauto eAmerica anogona kunge ane chikuva chakasimba chekuratidza chirongwa chayo sechinoshanda uye vanochibata segamba - pachinzvimbo chekushanda zvakanyanya uye kushungurudzika. Tinofanira kushamisika kana Velicovich akasvikirwa neuto reUnited States kuti anyore memoir yake. Zvechokwadi inogona kubatsira kugadzirisa dambudziko ravo rekupedzisira.
Alex Edney-Browne (@alexEdneybrown) ari mumiriri wePhD paYunivhesiti yeMelbourne, kwaari kutsvagisa psycho-social mhedzisiro yehondo ye drone pavagari veAfghan nevarwi veUS Air Force's drone chirongwa. Lisa Ling (@AREtVet) akashanda muuto reUnited States senyanzvi yezvenyanzvi pane drone surveillance systems asati aenda nekusunungurwa kunoremekedzwa mu 2012. Anoonekwa mu 2016 documentary pa drone warfare, "National Bird."
