US Drones to Deploy in Central Asia (Dmitry Popov, Strategc Culture Foundation)
On February 16 the Los Angeles Times reported that the Obama administration is making contingency plans to use air bases in Central Asia to conduct drone missile attacks in northwest Pakistan in case the White House is forced to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan at the end of this year without having an agreement of the status of forces. At first glance, the fact of making public classified information looks like an ordinary leak authorized on purpose in order to influence the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai. But the very fact that US unmanned aerial vehicles are going to be deployed in Central Asia calls for serious approach and comprehensive assessment.
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