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Indeed. But none has all the advantages of the drone. A setup, a sting or a wetwork operation requires manpower, planning, money and time. It can also go spectacularly wrong. A drone operation can be run by a tiny team on a shoestring budget. Not much planning is needed: just continuously monitor the target and select an advantageous situation for the kill in real time as it arises.

Mind you, I don't think that even the current evil regime has plans to sling Hellfire missiles about the US countryside. Coverups would be required and there would be great potential for blowback. It is the next generation of drones and drone weaponry that will be abused, because it will be much more deniable. Micro drones that can inject targets with practically undetectable poisons are NOT science fiction. They are being developed right now, along with God knows what else.

Indeed. But none has all the advantages of the drone. A setup, a sting or a wetwork operation requires manpower, planning, money and time. It can also go spectacularly wrong. A drone operation can be run by a tiny team on a shoestring budget.

You actually don't know much about UAVs, do you?

So the mildly incompetent Argentine dictatorship was able to "disappear" thousands of people, their bodies never found, in the 1970s. Even a micro-UAV poison dart strike leaves a body. If the government wants to do me in a couple decent agents with a moderate amount of legwork could grab me, kill me, and dispose of the body, and I'd just be a missings persons case.