ARTICLE: Air Force Training More Pilots for Drones Than for Manned Planes, By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, August 11, 2009

Now that is a sign of the Air Force going SysAdmin: when you hunt high-value targets vice do battle with divisions, you go with the many and the cheap (and the unmanned and therefore disposable).

What I heard at the OSD conference on sustainment: on drones, you simply run them into the ground--literally--when it comes to platform durability/lifetime.