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Not brilliant.
There are numerous questions regarding the use of drones that present genuine dilemmas. Pierce presents none of them in any serious way. I'd hardly call his short piece brilliant. I've seen much more substantive presentations of the arguments for and against the use of drones as an instrument of war.