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Thanks for A2A!!!It’s a very common question to everyone whoever studying in class 12th and their parents or guidance even other students too, sometimes they will be in same situation.It’s through very simple concepts which requires schedule ofDaily routineWeekly plansMonthly plansDividing entire sessions into three partsMay to November 2019December 2019 to January 2020Break - Final exam - Board Exam February to early March 2020End of March to May 2020Let’s describe the entire session along with daily, weekly and monthly schedules.May to November 2019Weekly PlannersA. Regular Class Work and Week daysMonday to Friday let’s say 10am to 4pm will be occupying to attend class.The topics to be taught in PCB (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) to go through before attending class and understanding the same in homeFrom 5pm to 9pm completely focus on studying those chapters and making notesCrucial times is 10pm to 11:45pm - Forget about what happened in class or tomorrow will be happening, concentrates in your schedule to study or practice parallel way NEET Study Materials and practice the same which could be Coaching Study Materials or MTG books Abu Ismail (আবু ইসমাইল)'s answer to What are the books that any beginner should prefer for the AIIMS/NEET?Will suggest in night to through Physics or Chemistry primarily where you need to build concepts and practice the objectives.In early morning 5am to 7am only study those subjects which you need to memorise rather than hard core understanding such language in your 12th standards and theoretical portion of Biology, Inorganic Chemistry primarilyBefore going to school at around 7:30am to 8:30am go through items mentioned in Point #2Give a pause as when required the above schedule during any class test or any other test timing.B. Week End during Classes continuedSaturday- Most important day of the weekRevision, revision and revision on Saturday - Nothing else except if you have any coaching classes or tuitions classesUnderstanding those topics which you faced problemsPractice numerical problemsOrganised your weekly class notesEvening keep completely free for Class 11th revision mainly PCB (Physics, Chemistry and Biology)Sunday - Most important day for getting REFRESHEDKeeping completely free for fulfilling as per your need except morning hours. Only to revise class 11th PCB (Physics, Chemistry and Biology)Any subjects you think important to study or practice do itSpend your Happy time with your family members or well wishers or people who encourage youC. Summer Vacation, Puja Holiday, Xmas HolidayMake a schedule for revision PCB (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) from 12th 70% to 80%In morning till afternoon study from 12thIn evening only do the revision of 11th PCB (Physics, Chemistry and Biology)Monthly PlannerThe sixth months plans and programs to be divided into monthly breakupFor every subject need separate unit wise monthly plansThis will help you to understand overall progress combining 11th and 12th PCB (Physics, Chemistry and Biology)Half Yearly Class Tests and Pre Test of Board ExamsThis will help you to revise the entire class 12th.December 2019 to May 2020A. Final board exam - Completely one month will be busy. The preparation whatever is done it should be well structured enough to coverup both Board as well as NEET 2020 examsChallengesIf you’re depending upon Coaching Classes then it will quite impossible to maintain your own schedule along with coaching classes plus school’s scheduleVery limited time will be for self study which is very dangerousNCERT books, Coaching Study Materials, Teachers notes - What to Study and what notNumerical problems solving time is comparatively very lessNeed to join the Online Test Series from Allen or Aakash- To appear the test by going through serious studyCompleting class 12th standards in only 9 monthsConclusionsDescribed plan as well as daily schedule are your reference purposes.You need to prepare YOUR OWN REALISTIC schedule. The given one is your reference purposes

When China finally wins her independence then legitimate foreign trading interests will enjoy more opportunities than ever before. The power of production and consumption of 450,000,000 people is not a matter that can remain the exclusive interest of the Chinese, but one that must engage the many nations. Our millions of people, once really emancipated, with their great latent productive possibilities freed for creative activity in every field, can help improve the economy as well as raise the cultural level of the whole world. Mao Zedong, July 13, 1936.Under WTO rules, America faces a policy dilemma.The per capita income disparity between itself and China sends jobs to China, but rising Chinese income–which slows the job drain–raises China’s aggregate national wealth and threatens US economic world dominance. The entire affair may turn out to be, as Omar Bradley might have said, the wrong trade war in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong enemy. Here’s a freeze-frame of the process:A NEGOTIATING DILEMMANegotiating skill is widely admired in China and one of its great practitioners, Xi Zhongxun–a civil war general at seventeen and provincial governor at twenty-three–would ride into the hills alone and emerge with entire rebel armies trotting behind him. Mao compared him to a famous negotiator in Dream of The Red Mansions and Xi coached his son, Jinping, until his death in 2002. Piquantly, Xi Junior’s first major negotiation is with an America’s leader who, by his own admission, is a great negotiator. This summarises the current state of play.Xi is offering to reshuffle China’s trade preferences if Trump publicly recognizes China as a peer–a fellow Great Power. Vice Premier Liu He spelled out Xi’s terms:All punitive, non-WTO tariffs, embargoes, and bans must be lifted before the agreement is finalized.All conditions in the agreement must apply equally to both parties.Xi’s original 2018 offer may be embellished but not substantively changed.China has twenty years to implement the terms of the agreement.Xi is offering Trump a tactical win in exchange for a strategic victory: If Trump fails to reach agreement, he dims his reelection hopes but, if he agrees to Xi’s terms and reverses his existing embargoes, he recognizes China as a peer and damages American credibility with the world.Remember that US officials repeatedly warned allies that dealing with Huawei endangered their security ties. If Trump withdraws its ban on Huawei, governments like Australia’s and New Zealand’s (both of which depend disproportionately on China’s good will and both of which capitulated and insulted China), will look like ungrateful weaklings and fools.COSTS AND BENEFITSAmerica is only China’s #3 trading partner (after the EU and ASEAN), though neither nation is a big trader: America’s trade accounts for only 26% of her GDP and China’s accounts for 37%, compared to 86% of Europe’s. And China’s economy is much bigger than America’s and growing much faster.Chinese imports in 2018 were 18.7% of GDP; US imports were 14.6% of GDP.Since this contest started, China has been reducing her reliance on trade with America (exports to the US fell 4.8% in 1H 2019) and increasing reliance on other trading partners.ASEAN replaced the US as China’s second-largest export market last year and the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership later this year will boost the area’s trade significantly, while trade with Belt and Road countries is rising 17.2% annually.Exports to the EU rose 14.2% in 2018 and, though the EU-China Bilateral Investment Agreement was not due to come into force until next year, China has already granted all its benefits to European investors without demanding reciprocity.In Bloomberg’s worst-case scenario, China’s US trade would fall by 0.8% of GDP, or $126 billion, and US trade would fall by 0.5%, leaving the global pecking order unchanged. However, since Xi warned China in 2016 to prepare for this possibility–and since the Chinese heed their presidents’ words–the cost may be less severe than Bloomberg anticipates. Some mitigating factors:Huawei’s YOY handset shipments rose 50% in H1 2019 while Apple’s fell 30% and Samsung’s dropped 8%.Huawei has 65% of the world’s 5G equipment market. All four of the UK's wireless providers (EE, O2, Three, Vodafone) are using Huawei for their 5G networks.Two-thirds of the largest exporters in China are foreign-owned.There are thousands of US Corporations in China and Boeing sells more airplanes in China than anywhere else in the world and Walmart produces more goods from China than any other company in the world.US companies in China sell $600 billion annually into the Chinese domestic market–$100 billion more than China exports to the US–and generate net profits of $50+ billion annually.Tesla, Boeing, BMW of America, Exxon Mobil and Wal-Mart have announced new investments and factories in China since the trade war began and Japanese, South Korean, and European companies are expanding their footprints because their Chinese sales are growing six percent annually and American sales are flat.Of the production facilities operated by Apple's top suppliers, 357 are in China and 63 are in America and, next month, Apple will shif manufacturing of its new Mac Pro from Texas to China.The average Chinese tariff on US-made products is now 20.7%, compared to 6.7% on competing products from WTO-compliant countries.151 countries have filed WTO complaints against the US and 85 have filed against the EU, but only 43 have filed against China.By shortening its negative list for foreign investment from 63 items to 48 last month, China widened access to its primary, secondary and tertiary sectors and detailed 22 opening-up measures in finance, transportation, professional services, infrastructure, energy, resources and agriculture.China’s $7 trillion domestic consumer market has passed the US’s $6.94 trillion domestic market.Investors are flooding into China’s new Nasdaq-style high-tech board shares, making more startup capital available.Chinese cross-border e-commerce consumers bought $100 billion of goods from foreign sellers in 2017 and $128 billion in 2018.China Mobile, with one billion customers, awarded 34% of its 5G equipment contract to Ericsson and Nokia and 5% to state-owned ZTE.Since 2007 China’s global current-account surplus has fallen from 10% of GDP to 1.4%, yet America’s deficit is unchanged.FUN FACTSThe US Air Force plans to award China's DJI a contract for consumer UAVs for its 11th Security Forces Squadron at Joint Base Andrews, Md.The Holy See urged Chinese priests to get with the program and register with the Communist Gov't. It is possible that the next Pope will be a Chinese...Communist. I kid you not.THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONSTwenty years ago Samuel Huntington observed, “Civilizations grow because they have an instrument of expansion, a military, religious, political, or economic organization that accumulates surplus and invests it in productive innovations and they decline when they stop the application of surplus to new ways of doing things. In modern terms we say that the rate of investment decreases. This happens because the social groups controlling the surplus have a vested interest in using it for non-productive but ego-satisfying purposes which distribute the surpluses to consumption but do not provide more effective methods of production.”As this chart makes clear, the social groups controlling America’s surplus used it for non-productive, ego-satisfying purposes and distributed the surpluses to consumption but did not provide more effective methods of production:America cut R&D investment, shuttered its great corporate labs and fell from first to thirty-first in the world’s education rankings since 1974, while China did the opposite (that’s why, in the movie Crazy Rich Asians a father urges his kids to finish their dinner saying, “Think of all the starving children in America”). By mid-2021 every Chinese will have a home, a job, plenty of food, education, safe streets, health and old age care and there will be more suicides and more homeless, poor, hungry children and imprisoned people in America than in China. In absolute numbers.BITCHING AND MOANINGThough Trump charges that China infringes American IP rights, China's payments of licensing fees and royalties for the use of foreign technology have reached $30 billion annually, nearly a four-fold increase over the last decade. Court filings show that China is a minor IP infringer and, domestically, China's Progress on Intellectual Property Rights has been swift and substantial. Complaints about ‘forced’ contributions of IP to joint ventures are simply daft: US companies sign them voluntarily to make profits and open markets.SUBSIDIESThe US Government spends $4.5 billion annually to subsidize a cotton crop that’s sold for $6 billion and would otherwise be priced at $12 billion, allowing US growers to profitably export three quarters of their output and to control 40% of the world cotton trade. What the US loses in textile manufacturing it regains in subsidized cotton exports, high returns on investment from its overseas textile mills, and low-cost consumer cotton goods. The subsidy also ruins the economies of the world’s poorest nations. There are dozens of examples of this practice.There is an economic basis behind America’s antagonistic militancy towards China: the US won both previous world wars primarily by its war-time productive power, a fact that has not been forgotten by US policy-planners. While US manufacturing base has been seriously eroded by neo-liberal global trade in the last two decades, the prospect of a shooting war with China will relocate much of the lost manufacturing back to the US in short order. Regional Integration Without Empire. By Henry C.K. LiuTIMELINEChina is lowering tariffs and opening domestic markets to attract multinationals and foreign products in order to force domestic companies to innovate, which is why it is the world’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment. The most exciting activity has been on the hottest battleground, technology. Here’s a timeline:August, 2012, Huawei’s CEO, “It is out of strategic concern that we have decided to develop our own device OS. If they forbid us from using Android and Windows Phone 8 one day, will we be caught empty-handed and have nothing to do? When they refuse to sell things to us, our products can also be used as backups even though the quality is not as good as theirs.”August, 2015: US blocks Intel’s Xeon and Xeon Phi export license fearing their use in Chinese supercomputers.March 2016. China unveils the world's fastest computer, built entirely with domestic chips and IP.April, 2016: President Xi: “Core technology controlled by others is our greatest hidden danger.”September, 2017: Huawei unveils its Kirin 970 chipset with built-in AI, dedicated neural processing, 5.5 billion transistors/sq. cm., 25x performance and 50x efficiency of ARM’s quad-core Cortex-A73 CPU cluster, eliminating the need for optical fibre to link function blocks, drastically reducing cost, power consumption, weight & size of towers.December, 2017: China publishes 641 AI patents compared to America’s 13o in the preceding year, according to the US National Science Foundation, (NSF).January 3, 2018 “There are only two truly vertically integrated mobile OEMs who have full control over their silicon: Apple and Huawei. Huawei is more integrated due to in-house modem development. Huawei has been the one company to be competitive with current leader, Qualcomm”.January 18, 2018. China becomes the world’s largest producer of scientific research papers, 20% of total global output. (NSF)February 2, 2018: Intel allies with Tsinghua Unigroup Spreadtrum to develop 5G solutions using Intel’s XMM 8000 modems and Spreadtrum’s application processors targeting 5G modem chips for Chinese handset market by 2H19. Qualcomm shares fall 2 cents.February 14, 2018: US Congress labels Huawei “an arm of the Chinese government,” bans it from bidding on US government contracts.March 5, 2018: China’s IC industry grows 21% annually, from $13.6 billion in 2013 to $30 billion.March 11, 2018. Huawei owns 22.8% of 5G technology IP, the highest of any company in the world.March 22, 2018. China’s IP office received the highest number of patent applications in 2017, a record total of 1.38 million, followed by the USPTO (607,000), Japan (318,000), South Korea (205,000), and the European Patent Office (167,000). Those top five offices account for 84.5 percent of the world’s total recorded patent applications.Mar 27, 2018: Trump, Treasury block China investment in US tech firms, stocks, preventing Chinese investment in emerging technologies.April 16, 2018: US prohibits transactions with ZTE Corporation for seven years on the grounds that ZTE violated its 2017 Iran settlement agreement.April 26, 2018: Qualcomm begins layoffs.April 26, 2018: Huawei Criminally Investigated For Iran sales.May 1, 2018: Chinese partners take over ARM’s operations in China. ARM’s chip blueprint is used in ninety of mobile devices and Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Qualcomm, Broadcom and MediaTek license its technology to develop chipsets for smartphone, tablets, wearables and connected devices.July 8, 2018. Average senior managerial salaries reach $216,000 in China, competitive with Silicon Valley.July 12, 2018. More than three hundred senior Taiwanese engineers move to mainland chip makers, joining a thousand who already relocated.July 9, 2018 Chinese chipmaker Hygon manufactures Zen-based x86 CPUs under a licensing agreement it signed with AMD in 2016 that earned AMD $293 million in cash and will continue paying royalties on unit sales.August 28, 2018. USTR Section 301 reports China’s ‘unfair technology transfer regime’ and concentrates on transfers achieved through joint ventures, licensing agreements and Chinese purchases of foreign companies—all of which occurred because the foreign companies wanted to make the deals.September 3, 2018: Huawei unveils Kirin 980 CPU, the world's first commercial 7nm system-on-chip (SoC), with 40 percent less power consumption compared to 10nm systems and 20% more bandwidth and 22% lower latency than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845. Its L5 frequency GPS receiver delivers 10cm. positioning.September 5, 2018. China’s front-end fabs accounted for 16 percent of the world's semiconductor capacity and will capture 20 percent in 2020.September 15, 2018. China controls one third of 5G patents and has twice as many installations operating as the rest of the world combined.September 21, 2018. China has twelve of the world's top fifty IC design houses and 21% of global IC design revenues.October 2, 2018. Chinese research makes up 18.6% of global STEM peer-reviewed papers, ahead of America’s 18%.October 14, 2018. Huawei ships 7 nm Ascend 910 chipset for data centers, twice as powerful as Nvidia’s v100 and the first AI IP chip series to natively provide optimal TeraOPS per watt in all scenarios.October 8, 2018: Taiwan’s Foxconn moves its major semiconductor maker and five IC design companies to Jinan, China.October 22, 2018. China becomes world leader in venture capital, ahead of the US and almost twice the rest of the world’s $53.4 billion YTD. Crunchbase says the world’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is now driven by China.Oct 25 2018. Nokia confirms 'thousands' of job losses over the next two years after third-quarter profits drop.Oct. 31, 2018. Chinese airline reservations to the US dropped 42 percent for the first week of October and 102,000 fewer Chinese received business, leisure and educational visas from May through September, a 13 percent drop YOY.November 2, 2018. “The most valuable speech recognition companies, machine translation companies, drone companies, computer vision companies and facial recognition companies are all Chinese.”– Kaifu Lee.November 3, 2018. Apple announces it will not, and Huawei announces it will ship 5G handsets in 2019.November 17, 2018. Kai-Fu Lee said his investment firm may scale back in the U.S. and try to lure US talent to China instead of investing in America.Dec 6, 2018. Canada's Ministry of Justice announces arrest of Huawei’s CFO Meng adding, "She is sought for extradition by the United States.”December 7, 2018. 5G requires more base stations than existing networks and China has ten times more than the US: 5.3 sites per ten 10 square miles vs. 0.4 in the US.December 10, 2018. Governments and secret services in the non-Western world begin equipping themselves exclusively with Huawei to protect the confidentiality of their communications.December 17, 2018. By a vote of 121-8, the UN General Assembly approves the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas, formally extending human rights protections to farmers whose seed sovereignty is threatened by government and corporate IP practices. The United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Hungary, Israel, and Sweden vote ‘No.’December 21, 2018. Foxconn plans $9bn China chip project amid trade warDecember 22, 2018. China's Fourth Paradigm sells a second-generation AI product, a suite of AI software tools and a customised chip to process its algorithms, to the world's biggest banks to run complex algorithms on their data to detect fraud, identify customers and perform other analysis without needing highly trained engineers. (The world’s biggest, most profitable banks are Chinese)December 24, 2018. Chinese imports post a 14.6% rise for the first eleven months of 2018 to exceed US$2 trillion, a record, making China the most powerful trading nation by volume and dollar value.January 1, 2019. In 2018, China accounted for $52 billion in sales for Apple, and is its third-largest market. For Qualcomm, the figure is $15 billion, or about 65 percent of its total sales. Others include Intel (24 percent), Micron Technology (51 percent), and Texas Instruments (44 percent).January 7, 2019. Huawei Unveils the Industry’s Highest-Performance ARM-based CPU, the Kunpeng 920, a 7nm CPU that boosts the development of computing in big data, distributed storage, and ARM-native application scenarios by 20%.February 21, 2019. Huawei gear tests out as 30% more energy efficient than competitors and cuts connectivity cost-per-bit for by 80-90% compared to 4G. Its 5G base station is 40% of the size and weight of competing models and can be installed by two people in hours.THE PAST AS PRELUDEMidway in the sixteenth century China became the great repository of the early modern world's newly discovered wealth in silver. Long a participant in international maritime trade, China experienced the consequences of the greatly enlarged patterns in world trade. In that commerce China was essentially a seller of high-quality craft manufactures. Other countries could not compete either in quality or price. The colonies of the New World and the entire Mediterranean sphere of trade, from Portugal and Spain to the Ottoman Empire, began to complain that the influx of Chinese goods undermined their economies. F.W. Mote, Imperial China 900-1800.

1. The first armed drones were created to get Osama bin Laden.In 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton’s administration shut down an operation to kill the al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan with cruise missiles, given collateral damage estimates of 300 casualties and only 50 percent confidence in the intelligence. As the 9/11 Commission noted, “After this episode Pentagon planners intensified efforts to find a more precise alternative.” In 2000 and 2001, the U.S. Air Force struggled to reconfigure a Hellfire anti-tank missile to fit onto a Predator surveillance drone. Meeting one week before the 9/11 attacks, the National Security Council agreed that the armed Predator was not ready to be operationally deployed. The first known killing by armed drones occurred in November 2001, when a Predator targeted Mohammed Atef, a top al Qaeda military commander, in Afghanistan.2. So far, drones tend to crash.On Dec. 4, an RQ-170 Sentinel surveillance drone crashed in Iran; a U.S. official involved in the program blamed a lost data link and another unspecific malfunction. Two weeks later, an unarmed Reaper drone crashed at the end of a runway in the Seychelles. “This should not be a surprise,” a defense official told Aviation Week & Space Technology, saying the United States had already lost more than 50 drones. As of July 2010, the Air Force had identified 79 drone accidents costing at least $1 million each. The primary reasons for the crashes: bad weather, loss or disruption of communications links, and “human error factors,” according to the Air Force. As Lt. Gen. David Deptula, former Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, has noted with refreshing honesty, “Some of the [drones] that we have today, you put in a high-threat environment, and they’ll start falling from the sky like rain.”3. Drones are coming to America.Worried about the militarization of U.S. airspace by unmanned aerial vehicles? As of October, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had reportedly issued 285 active certificates for 85 users, covering 82 drone types. The FAA has refused to say who received the clearances, but it was estimated over a year ago that 35 percent were held by the Pentagon, 11 percent by NASA, and 5 percent by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). And it’s growing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection already operates eight Predator drones. Under pressure from the congressional Unmanned SystemsCacus — yes, there’s already a drone lobby, with 50 members — two additional Predators were sent to Texas in the fall, though a DHS official noted: “We didn’t ask for them.” Last June, a Predator drone intended to patrol the U.S.-Canada border helped locate three suspected cattle rustlers in North Dakota in what was the first reported use of a drone to arrest U.S. citizens.4. The scope of U.S. military drone missions is expanding…Drones have come a long way in little more than a decade of military use in strike operations. Five-pound backpack drones are now used by infantry soldiers for tactical surveillance and will soon be deployed for what their manufaturer calls “magic bullet” kamikaze missions. Special operations forces have developed a warhead fired from a Predator drone that can knock down doors. K-Max helicopter drones transport supplies to troops at forward operating bases in Afghanistan. Balloons unleash Tempest drones, which then send out smaller surveillance drones — called Cicadas — that glide to the ground to collect data. And now the U.S. State Department is flying a small fleet of surveillance drones over Iraq to protect the U.S. Embassy there. Bottom line: More and more drones have been rushed into service, and their use and application by the U.S. military is seemingly infinite.5. …But not as fast as civilian uses.Safety inspectors used drones at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to survey the damage after last year’s tsunami. Archaeologists in Russia are using small drones with infrared cameras to construct a 3-D model of ancient burial mounds. Environmental activists use the Osprey drone to track and monitor Japanese whaling ships. Photographers are developing a celebrity-seeking paparrazi drones. GALE drones will soon fly into hurricanes to more accurately monitor a storm’s strength. And Boeing engineers have joined forces with MIT students to build an iPhone app that can control a drone from up to 3,000 miles away. Last summer, using a laser 3-D printer, University of Southampton engineers built a nearly silent drone that can be assembled by hand in minutes.6. Most military drones don’t bomb.Although decapitation strikes may get all the headlines, the vast majority of the time, drones are used for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance — what the military calls ISR. The U.S. Navy’s first high-altitude drone can relay black-and-white photos covering roughly half the Persian Gulf; the Global Hawk’s advanced radars make detailed images of the Earth and attempt to sniff out chemical or biological agents for telltale signs of weapons of mass destruction. Soon, the Gorgon Stare drone will “be looking at a whole city, so there will be no way for the adversary to know what we’re looking at, and we can see everything,” according to Maj. Gen. James O. Poss.7. Attack drones require more boots on the ground.Most unmanned aircraft flown by the U.S. military require not just a ground-based “pilot,” but also a platoon of surveillance analysts (approximately 19 per drone), sensor operators, and a maintenance crew. Some 168 people are required to keep a Predator drone aloft — and 180 for its larger cousin, the Reaper — compared with roughly 100 people for an F-16 fighter jet. To keep up with the demand, the Air Force has trained more drone operators than pilots for the past two years. The upside is that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, drones “are usually less expensive than manned aircraft” ($15 million for a Global Hawk versus about $55 million for a new F-16), though costly sensors and excessive crashes can negate the difference.8. Drones are becoming a lethal weapon of choice, but nobody’s in charge.Over the past decade, there have been some 300 drone strikes outside the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Of these attacks, 95 percent occurred in Pakistan, with the rest in Yemen and Somalia; cumulatively, they have killed more than 2,000 suspected militants and an unknown number of civilians. Although U.S. President Barack Obama recently acknowledged that “a lot of these strikes” have been in Pakistan’s tribal areas, who can be targeted and under what authority can only be guessed from a few speeches and statements by anonymous U.S. officials. There are believed to be multiple drone-target “kill lists” among government agencies. The 2011 book Top Secret America revealed “three separate ‘kill lists’ of individuals” kept by the National Security Council, the CIA, and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command. In Yemen, the Pentagon is the lead executive authority for some drone strikes (which are reported to the congressional armed services committees), while the CIA is in charge for others (reported to the intelligence committees). As for the Obama administration’s claimed power to assassinate U.S. citizens, such as Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the Justice Department refuses to declassify the memo that provided the legal authority to kill him with a drone. So, although 85 percent of non-battlefield drone strikes have occurred under Obama, we have little understanding of their use.9. Other countries are catching up to the United States.As with most military programs, the United States is far and away the leader in developing drone technology, and the country is projected to account for 77 percent of drone R&D and 69 percent of procurement in the coming decade. Nevertheless, estimates of how many other countries have at least some drone capability now range from 44 to 70, for an estimated 680 drone programs around the world, up greatly from 195 in 2005. China is escalating its drone program, with at least 25 types of systems in development. Iran has also touted its program, including the armed “Ambassador of Death” drone, which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled by declaring: “Its main message is peace and friendship.”10. The drone future is already here.The Pentagon now boasts a fleet of approximately 7,500 drones, up from just 50 a decade ago. According to a congressional report, “manned aircraft have gone from 95% of all [Defense Department] aircraft in 2005 to 69% today.” Over the next decade, the Pentagon expects the no of “multirole” drones — ones that can both spy and strike — to nearly quadruple, to 536. In 2011, the Teal Group consulting firm estimated that worldwide spending on unmanned aerial vehicles will nearly double over the next decade from $5.9 billion to $11.3 billion annually. In the future, drones are projected to: hover just behind infantry soldiers to watch their backs; carry airborne lasers to intercept ballistic missiles; perform aerial refueling; and conduct long-range strategic bombing missions. Given that drones will become cheaper, smaller, faster, stealthier, more lethal, and more autonomous, it is harder to imagine what they won’t do than what they will. Whatever limits drones face will be imposed by us humans — not technology.