Press TV reports Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) has announced plans to use game players to replace the combat-trained pilots operating unmanned Reaper drone planes in frontline missions in Afghanistan. This Last Starfighter strategy is described as a cost-cutting measure, but the story also references studies that suggest video game players are actually better at this than their highly trained counterparts. The article points out that small mistakes by such drone operators can have severe consequences, and the US and NATO have come under criticism for the increasing number of Afghan and Pakistani civilian casualties over recent years. Thanks GamePolitics.