Andįor everything else you ever wanted to know about drones, see our guide.ĬIA Shifts Focus to Killing Targets, The Washington Post, August 2011 drone program, and how it’s changed the way we fight.

This piece is one of the most in-depth looks we found on Have to push a button from a station on their base, what some say is like Soldiers used to have to point a gun at the enemy to kill. Who should be hunted and killed had never been reported – until Tara Mckelvey snagged an exclusive interview with a man at theĬIA who approved these “lethal operations.”Īmerica Goes to War in Secret, Rolling Stone, April 2012In war, Used drones to kill suspected terrorists.

Inside the Killing Machine, Newsweek, February 2011Īt the time of this article’s writing, the American public knew the military That he, in effect, is “personally overseeing the shadow war with Al Qaeda.”īut some officials criticize his tactics – like a formula for countingĬivilian deaths that may significantly lower the actual numbers. Obama’s hands-on counterterrorism record means

Obama’s Principles and Will, New York Times, May 2012 The hunt that led to the end of the man Obama had dubbed a top national Gripping narrative brings to life the night they killed Bin Laden, as well as Translator and a dog named Cairo: Nicholas Schmidle’s Twenty-three Navy SEALs, one Pakistani-American One of our resident national security experts, Dafna Linzer, helped curate this list. For a good introduction, and to see how they’ve Of the best pieces of watchdog journalism on Obama’s national security York Times’ expose on Obama’s “secret ‘kill list,’” we collected some

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