Reaper Force - Inside Britain's Drone Wars. Peter Lee M.

of days has left me with a profound sense of unfinished business. There is no finality, no fulfilment of a job well done. No explosions, no killing of the ‘baddies’. The part of me that loves to see a task neatly finished would be driven mad doing this job.

      When I get back on the highway, the darkness of the desert is oppressive in places. The headlights of other cars and trucks have a hypnotic effect. A distant glow on the horizon grows steadily until the bright city lights burst into view. It is an assault on my visual acuity after a day in a darkened box watching greyscale images of a distant desert land. I console myself with the possibility that it will all make more sense tomorrow…

10 Further details about the CAOC can be found at http://www.afcent.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/217803/combined-air-operations-center-caoc/, accessed 30 July 2017.

11 In July 2018 the designation Red Card Holder was changed to Green Card Holder.