Drone Attacks have had a liberating effect on US military forces, but they are deeply hated by many people retired General Stanley McChrystal said on Monday.

Drone Attacks  have had a liberating effect on US military forces, but they are deeply hated by many people retired General Stanley McChrystal said on Monday.

McChrystal, who authored the US counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, said use of drones had enabled him to carry out missions with smaller groups of special operations forces.

“What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world,” he said in an interview. “The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes … is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who’ve never seen one or seen the effects of one.”

McChrystal said the use of drones exacerbates a “perception of American arrogance that says, ‘Well we can fly where we want, we can shoot where we want, because we can.’”