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The "author and his colleagues at the investigative website, The Intercept, expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy."--NoveList.

When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly, it offers assurances that such operations are a more precise alternative to troops on the ground, but the implicit message from the administration has been trust, but don't verify. The online magazine The Intercept obtained a cache of secret slides that provide a window into the inner workings of the US military's kill/capture operations in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia, and show assassination to be central to US counterterrorism policy. This campaign, carried out by two presidents through four presidential terms, has been deliberately obscured from the public-- until now.

Foreword: Elected by circumstance /Betsy Reed

Elected by circumstance /Edward Snowden

The drone legacy / Jeremy Scahill

Death and the watchlist / Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux

Why I leaked the watchlist documents / Anonymous

Find, fix, finish / Jeremy Scahill

The kill chain / Cora Currier

The heart of the drone maze / Jeremy Scahill

Target Africa / Nick Turse

Death by metadata / Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald

Firing blind / Cora Currier and Peter Maass

Stingrays at home Jeremy Scahill and Margot Williams

The life and death of Objective Peckham/Ryan Gallagher

Manhunting in the Hindu Kush / Ryan Devereaux - Afterword : War without end / Glenn Greenwald.

Drone aircraft > Government policy > United States.

Targeted killing > United States > History > 21st century.

Targeted killing > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.

Drone aircraft > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.

Terrorism > United States > Prevention > Decision making.

Military intelligence > United States > Evaluation.

Military intelligence > Technological innovation > Moral and ethical aspects.

National security > United States.

United States > Military policy > Moral and ethical aspects.