TY - BOOK ID - 78676050 TI - See it/shoot it PY - 2017 SN - 0300227671 9780300227673 9780300218541 0300218540 PB - New Haven DB - UniCat KW - Drone aircraft KW - Drones (Aircraft) KW - Pilotless aircraft KW - Remotely piloted aircraft KW - UAVs (Unmanned aerial vehicles) KW - Unmanned aerial vehicles KW - Flying-machines KW - Vehicles, Remotely piloted KW - Airplanes KW - Government policy KW - Radio control KW - United States. KW - Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës KW - Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) KW - CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) KW - CIP (United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde) KW - Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao ch KW - National Security Council (U.S.). KW - Si Aing Ei KW - T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA KW - T͡SRU SShA KW - T͡SRU (T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) KW - National Security Council (U.S.) KW - Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao chü KW - T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA KW - T︠S︡RU SShA KW - T︠S︡RU (T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) KW - ЦРУ США KW - ЦРУ (Центральное разведывательное управление США) KW - Центральное разведывательное управление США KW - ארצות הברית. KW - 美國. KW - Terrorism KW - Prevention. KW - Anti-terrorism KW - Antiterrorism KW - Counter-terrorism KW - Counterterrorism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78676050 AB - An illuminating study tracing the evolution of drone technology and counterterrorism policy from the Reagan to the Obama administrations This eye-opening study uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: the armed drone. It reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the CIA's covert drone program is not a product of 9/11. Rather, it is the result of U.S. counterterrorism practices extending back to an influential group of policy makers in the Reagan administration. Tracing the evolution of counterterrorism policy and drone technology from the fallout of Iran-Contra and the CIA's "Eagle Program" prototype in the mid-1980s to the emergence of al-Qaeda, Fuller shows how George W. Bush and Obama built upon or discarded strategies from the Reagan and Clinton eras as they responded to changes in the partisan environment, the perceived level of threat, and technological advances. Examining a range of counterterrorism strategies, he reveals why the CIA's drones became the United States' preferred tool for pursuing the decades-old goal of preemptively targeting anti-American terrorists around the world. ER -