Surveillance, surveys and answers in Kabul

In Kabul, where the Afghan Peace Volunteers have hosted me in their community, the U.S. military maintains a huge blimp equipped with cameras and computers to supply 24-hour surveillance of the city.

Remotely piloted drones, operated by Air Force and Air National Guard personnel on U.S. bases, also fly over Afghanistan, giving U.S. military analysts miles of camera footage, every day. Billions of dollars have been invested in a variety of blimps that various vendors such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Aeros have shipped to Afghanistan.

All of this surveillance purportedly...