Steve Coll has a long article in the New Yorker on drones, using only Pakistan as the setting; with some new insights and brings the US aspects up to date IMHO:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...blinking-stare

There is a longstanding main thread Using drones: principles, tactics and results (with 60k views), into which this will be merged one day:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=7385