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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.

Drone aircraft --- Drones (Aircraft) --- Pilotless aircraft --- Remotely piloted aircraft --- UAVs (Unmanned aerial vehicles) --- Unmanned aerial vehicles --- Flying-machines --- Vehicles, Remotely piloted --- Airplanes --- Government policy --- Radio control --- United States. --- Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës --- Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) --- CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) --- CIP (United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde) --- Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao ch --- National Security Council (U.S.). --- Si Aing Ei --- T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA --- T͡SRU SShA --- T͡SRU (T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) --- National Security Council (U.S.) --- Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao chü --- T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA --- T︠S︡RU SShA --- T︠S︡RU (T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) --- ЦРУ США --- ЦРУ (Центральное разведывательное управление США) --- Центральное разведывательное управление США --- ארצות הברית. --- 美國. --- Terrorism --- Prevention. --- Anti-terrorism --- Antiterrorism --- Counter-terrorism --- Counterterrorism

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"The threat posed by the recent rise of transnational non-state armed groups does not fit easily within either of the two basic paradigms for state responses to violence. The crime paradigm focuses on the interception of demonstrable immediate threats to the safety of others. Its aim is to protect specific persons and members of the general public from violence by identifiable individuals, who may be acting alone or in concert. In pursuit of this aim, the state uses police operations and the criminal justice system. Both of these tools are governed by human rights principles that significantly constrain state power. A state may not restrict liberty unless it has demonstrable evidence that an individual may pose a danger to others. It may not use force if other means will be effective to stop a threat. If using force is unavoidable, it must be the minimum amount necessary. Furthermore, a state generally may not take life unless no other measure will intercept an immediate threat to life"--

Asymmetric warfare. --- International and municipal law. --- Non-state actors (International relations). --- Terrorism (International law). --- Asymmetric warfare --- International and municipal law --- Non-state actors (International relations) --- Terrorism (International law)

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