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“People tend to talk in terms of how many people and civilians the United States has killed using drones. One question I’m never asked, though, is how many lives did you save?”

Brett Velicovich

What Drone Warfare Does to a Soldier's Brain http://www.gq.com/story/drone-warfare-interview-brett-velicovich, GQ Magazine, 29 June 2017

“The future of drones is not warfare, it's enabling businesses in the private sector.”

Brett Velicovich

(from the video US tops with military drones, but China owns consumer market, channel "CNBC Squawk Box", July 13, 2017.

“It's a terrible, terrible thing to take a life. But at the same time, the people we were going after - these are some of the most evil people in the world. They would have no qualms about coming in here and killing every single person - man, woman and child. And so yeah, we refer to them as targets.”

Brett Velicovich

July 2017 http://www.npr.org/2017/07/08/536125111/life-as-a-drone-warrior, In a discussion with NPR radio host Scott Simon about the morality of targeting terrorists with drones.

“I can't tell you how many terrorists we let go, we let get away, because we were worried about a woman or a child dying in the process.”

Brett Velicovich

An elite soldier on using drones to hunt terrorists — and giving the kill order http://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/17/15961420/drone-terrorist-iraq-afghanistan-interview-warrior-brett-velicovich, Vox, 17 July 2017