“Let's not kill our livestock the same way the US is killing humans in Waziristan with drones. I don't love blue skies anymore. In fact, I prefer gray skies now. Drones don't fly when the sky is grey.”- Rafiq Rehman, after the drone attack on his residence killed his mother. It was October 24, 2012. The last day of Ramadan in the Islamic lunar calendar, one day before Eid. Mamana Rehman was in her garden picking okra; her two nephews played a little further away, though within sight, while her son was out shopping. Without caution, a US CIA Predator drone landed right on the Rehman family residence, destroying everything in its range. The house was in ashes, along with the village. Mamana Rehman was just another victim of collateral damage. Meanwhile, former CIA director Leon Panetta, gave a deadpan response on his position on drones: "Very frankly, it's the only game out there in terms of confronting or trying to destroy al Qaeda's leadership"; highlighting once again the immense advantage that drones have in terms of range, diversity and contribution to international security. The two contrasting views on the use of these drones are evidently clear, making this one of the most debated topics worldwide. While one side heavily argues for the benefits of drones in vast diversity and their role in achieving the “greater good,” the other side argues that nothing surpasses the loss of a human life. Every human life is as important as the other and to save one you cannot destroy the other. To view any breathing body in any corner of the globe as 'collateral damage' is a pathetic indictment that directly insults humanity. On the contrary... half of the paper... nes. Sending drones in place of military personnel also means losing valuable information that perhaps would have been obtained if the latter had been used. A captured terrorist can offer all sorts of valuable clues that a dead terrorist cannot. The prospect of war is disturbing and threatening to countries in general because it carries the risk of losing lives. In both triumph and defeat, nations lose countless lives. It is precisely this risk that gives a human factor to these wars, making them ugly and unpleasant. Specializing in drones dehumanizes war, turning it into a meeting of technological progress and economics between states. Once drones have established themselves as an essential form of warfare in developed countries, wars will become more frequent and longer, as the risk that was once present in medieval warfare has diminished exponentially.