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Douglas Dillon Fellow Micah Zenko asserts that shifting lead executive authority for U.S. drone strikes from the CIA to the Pentagon is the...
Speaker: Micah Zenko, Fellow for Conflict Prevention, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
September 16, 2010
CFR's Micah Zenko discusses with students secret military operations undertaken by the United States over the past twenty years, their sucesses and failures, and reasons why they were used, as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call series.
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