The problem we had with Yemen is that the US tended to view the country only through US domestic counter-terrorism issues, and somewhere along the line, we lost the fact that this was a struggling, poor nation, with lots of radical factions, that needed a heck of a lot more stuff going on to stabilize it.

Journalist Chris Woods explains how drones hijacked US foreign policy – from our new military dependence on extrajudicial killings, to the CIA’s efforts to maintain the drone program at the cost of political stability abroad – and why secrecy fuels America’s newest global war.

Chris is author of the new book Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars.