retired lieutenant colonel wayne phelps offered his views on dronewarfare . >> one of the biggest changes that we've seen with the employment of armed drones is that mental transition occurs on almost a daily basis. there's particularly with in the air force so they are flying remotely piloted aircraft as they reach base near las vegas. that mental transition occurs when you wake up in your house in the morning and you drive to work, you're basically commuting to combat and you fly a combat sortie or a combatmission on the other side of the planet . you might have a strike. during that time and then immediately transitioning yourself to return home at the end of the day so one of the people i interviewed talk about this strange feeling that they often referred to as deployed in garrison where your conducting combat operations from home. and you're doing these transitions on the daily basis. sometimes looking 12, 14 hour shifts . with several days a week. so you have these strange period's of work where your mentally deployed but physically still in the united states. they have conducted s

. >> in our weekly author interview program "after words," retired lieutenant colonel wayne phelps.ered his views on drone warfare. >> guest: so one of the biggest changes that we have seen with the employment of our own drones is that lethal transition occurs on almost a daily basis. particularly within the airports where they're flying remotely-piloted aircraft mother las vegas. so that mental transition occurs, you wake up at your house in the morning, and then you drive to work, you basically commute the combat, and you'll fly a, you know, a combat mission on the other side of the planet. you might have a strike, you know, during that period of time, and then you're mentally transitioning yourself to return home at the end of the day. so a lot of the people that i interviewed talked about strange feeling that they often refer the as deployed in garrison where you're conducting combat operations from home, and you're doing these transitions on a daily basis, sometimes working 12, 14-hour shifts. several, several days a week. so you have these strange, strange periods of work wher

. >> on her weekly author interview program, after words, retired lieutenant colonel wayne phelps offered his views on drone warfare. >> one of the biggest changes we have seen in drones is that mental transition occurs on almost a daily basis. in particular in the force where they are flying remotely piloted aircraft near las vegas. that mental transition occurs when you wake up at your house in the morning and then you drive to work, you basically commute to combat. you fly a combat mission on the other side of the planets. you might have a strike from that period of time and you're mentally transitioning your taught yourself to return home at the end of the day. one of the people i interviewed this strange feeling they often refer to as deployed with combat operations from home on a daily basis. sometimes looking 12 -- 14 hour shifts several days a week. so you have these strange periods of work where you are mentally deployed and you may have conducted a strike at some. during your mission and you may be home in time for dinner with your family or to see a soccer game, or pick up milk

. >> honor weekly author interview program after words retired lieutenant wayne phelps offered his views on drone warfare. >> one of the biggest changes we have seen with the employment of drones is that mental transition occurs on almost a daily basis. particularly within the air force where they are flying remotely in the base by las vegas for the mental transition occurs when you wake up in her house in the morning and then you drive to work you basically commute to combat and you fly a combat mission on the other side of the planet. you might have a strike during that period of time. you are mentally transitioning your self to return home at the end of the day. the people i interviewed talked about this strange feeling they often referred to as deployed and garrisoned. you are conducting combat operations from home. you are doing these transitions on a daily basis. sometimes working 14 hour shifts, several days a week. you have these strange periods of work where you are mentally deployed, you are physically still in the united states. you may have conducted a strike at some. during