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Hello angry planetplan of listeners, this is Matthew. What you are about to hear is a three-part series about the drones of the Vietnam War

that I'm cutting together is one long

commercial free episode here for our sub-stack subscribers. You guys really make the

show work. Jason and Kevin and I love you and appreciate all you're doing for us.

Here it is. It's about 45 minutes long.

It's a really fascinating story that was researched and kind of written and then cut together by David X of

war is boring fame now at Forbes and the Daily Beast possibly possibly soon Rolling Stone,

we'll see.

Without further ado, here it is. On October 7th, 2001, a U.S. Air Force MQ1 predator drone flying over Afghanistan,

fired a missile at a building CIA analyst suspected of

housing Taliban leader Mola Omar.

Predator missed and instead struck a vehicle killing. Mr. Moll's bodyguards.

The botched predator strike was not, contrary to popular opinion, the first time U.S.

military and intelligence agencies had sent aerial robots into battle.

As early as the Second World War, the military had tinkered with remote-controlled bombers.

Drones also played an important, and today largely unheralded role in the bloody two-decade

U.S. Air War over Vietnam and surrounding countries in the 1960s and 70s.

Drone aircraft spotted targets from manned U.S. bombers, jammed North Vietnamese

...