{"id":3053,"date":"2013-03-27T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2013-03-26T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:09:31","slug":"drone-attacks-visualized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Attacks Visualized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3054\" style=\"width: 1272px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/drone-attacks-and-victims.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3054\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3054 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/drone-attacks-and-victims.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1262\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/drone-attacks-and-victims.png 1262w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/drone-attacks-and-victims-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/drone-attacks-and-victims-1024x499.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/drone-attacks-and-victims-500x244.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1262px) 100vw, 1262px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The use of drones to eliminate enemy targets has become routine practice for U.S. military operations since 2004, specially in Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drones.pitchinteractive.com\/\">Pitch Interactive<\/a> has created the visualization above, showing the number of drone attacks since 2004 to date, as well as the number of casualties. Of an estimated 3,105 casualties, 175 were children (5.6%), 535 were civilians (17.2%), and 2,348 (75.6%) were casualties classified as other, which can include male able-bodied enemy combatants, their neighbors, and possible militants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Data for this visualization was obtained by Pitch Interactive from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/category\/projects\/drones\/\">Bureau of Investigative Journalism<\/a>,\u00a0 the <a href=\"http:\/\/counterterrorism.newamerica.net\/about\/militants\">New America Foundation<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingunderdrones.org\/\">Living Under Drones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Drone Attacks Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Drone Attacks Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Drone Attacks Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Drone Attacks Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of drones to eliminate enemy targets has become routine practice for U.S. military operations since 2004, specially in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pitch Interactive has created the visualization above, showing the number of drone attacks since 2004 to date, as well as the number of casualties. Of an estimated 3,105 casualties, 175 were children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Drone Attacks Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Drone Attacks Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Drone Attacks Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Drone Attacks Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/drone-attacks-visualized\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,165,253,37,14,30],"tags":[382,823,824,822,821,825,1364,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}