Sudden justice : America's secret drone wars
Woods, Chris (Journalist)2015
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Main title:
Sudden justice : America's secret drone wars / Chris Woods.
Author:
Woods, Chris (Journalist), author
Publisher:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Collation:
xvi, 386 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-365) and index.
Contents:
View to a kill : armed drones on the battlefieldBirth of a predator : the origins of lethal dronesThe rise of targeted killing : Yemen and PalestineThe cauldron : Iraq 2003-2011The occasional assassin : Bush in PakistanThe enemy without : Western citizens killed by dronesObama's obsession : "AfPak"Game face on : the intimacy of remote killingAn absence of transparency : Yemen and SomaliaThe long road home : Afghanistan and PakistanThe inconstant value of a civilian lifeCountermeasures and critiquesAppendix: Reports of Westerners killed in US targeted strikes, September 2001 to December 2014.
ISBN:
9780190202590 (acidfree paper)0190202599 (acidfree paper)
Language:
English
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Subject:
Drone aircraft -- United StatesUninhabited combat aerial vehicles (International law) -- United StatesDrone aircraft -- Government policy -- United StatesTargeted killing -- Government policy -- United StatesDrone aircraft -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United StatesSpecial operations (Military science) -- United States -- History -- 21st centuryWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009Afghan War, 2001- -- Aerial operations, American
BRN:
3983269
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