CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

(1) Introduction: A Frightening New Way of War
Marjorie Cohn

PART I THE UNITED STATES AND DRONE WARFARE

(2) Why Drones Are More Dangerous Than Nuclear
Weapons
Richard Falk

(3) Drones and Assassination in the US’s Permanent War
Phyllis Bennis

(4) The Predator War
Jane Mayer

PART II TARGETED KILLING AND “COLLATERAL DAMAGE”

(5) A Global Assassination Program
Tom Reifer

(6) The Grim Toll Drones Take on Innocent Lives
Medea Benjamin

(7) Documenting Civilian Casualties
Alice K. Ross

PART III ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL

(8) US Policy of Targeted Killing With Drones: Illegal
at Any Speed
Jeanne Mirer

(9) Drone Warfare and Just War Theory
Harry van der Linden

(10) Al-Aulaqi v. Obama: Targeted Killing Goes to Court
Pardiss Kebriaei

(11) The Case of Israel: A Covert Policy of Political
Capital Punishment
Ishai Menuchin

PART IV THE FUTURE OF TARGETED KILLING

(12) Drone Strike Blowback
John Quigley

(13) Surveillance Drones in America
Jay Stanley

(14) To Stop the Drones?
Tom Hayden

APPENDIX A

Department of Justice White Paper: Lawfulness of a
Lethal Operation Directed Against a US Citizen Who
Is a Senior Operational Leader of Al-Qa’ida or An
Associated Force

APPENDIX B

White House: Fact Sheet: US Policy Standards and
Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism
Operations Outside the United States and Areas of
Active Hostilities

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