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The CIA drone program sure feels like a war: unmanned aircraft incinerating thousands of terrorists we're at war with, as well as some civilians. And if you look at the reach of the program — now that everyone seems to be looking at the reach of the program again — well, it's nearly worldwide. American drone strikes haven't led to casualties near what the 20th century's world wars caused, but it covers almost as much geography. A few years into the Iraq war, the Bush administration tried to coin the term Global War on Terror. It didn't stick, aside from a few conservative military blogs who faithfully deployed the clunky acronym GWOT. But if you put together all the reports about the American drone program since President Obama's taken office — particularly in advance of John Brennan's confirmation hearing on Thursday to become the next CIA chief — the breadth of the program is remarkable:

In our map, the dark red countries are the ones in which the U.S. has conducted airstrikes. Medium-red countries are places where the U.S. has bases from which it's piloting the drones (including the one in Saudi Arabia that was made public overnight). The light red countries are the ones where the U.S. has used drones for surveillance. The relative number of drone strikes is indicated by the size of the blue dots.