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Niger approves use of armed US drones: report

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Niger approves use of armed US drones: report | TheHill

To many hoops to jump thru. And time is precious when armed air support is needed.
The development comes nearly two months after an ambush in Niger left four U.S. Army soldiers dead. While the U.S. began weighing arming drones in the region before the attack, the ambush increased the sense of urgency within the Trump administration to do so.

During the ambush, a request for an armed drone to provide cover for the troops was denied. That request was blocked in the approval process, which goes through the Pentagon, the State Department and the Nigerien government.
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This is just incompetence. The people responsible for allowing this to happen - at the Pentagon and at State - should be run out on a rail. If you can't provide support to deployed troops, don't deploy the troops.
 
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