The First Drone Strike — 2001 — And No One Noticed at the Time

On November 5, 2001, a CIA Predator drone hovering over Afghanistan fired a Hellfire missile at a Taliban convoy. The target was Taliban commander Mullah Mohammed Omar's bodyguard. The missile hit. The guard died. It was the first lethal drone strike in history — 21 years before Ukraine would make drones famous. At the time, the Pentagon barely mentioned it. The New York Times buried it on page B6. Military generals called it a "gimmick." Two decades later, every major military now builds drone fleets. The man who pressed the button in 2001 was sitting in a trailer in Virginia, 7,000 miles away. He later said: "I thought it was just another Tuesday.

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