“The Pentagon is increasingly relying on private contractors to operate drones for reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
See also:
Govern, Kevin H. and Schlager, Scott A, ‘Guns for Hire, Death on Demand’: The Permissibility of U.S. Outsourcing of Drone Attacks to Civilian Surrogates of the Armed Forces and Challenges to Traditional Just War Theory (2013). Florida Journal of International Law, Vol. XXV, No. 2, 2013. Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2341756
and see:
http://militarylegitimacyreview.com/?s=Drone
and see: