Authors: Peter Lampert Bergen, and Katherine Tiedemann
July/August 2011
Foreign Affairs
Since taking office, the Obama administration has ramped up the U.S. drone program in Pakistan. But unless the drone strikes become more transparent and is transferred from CIA to military control, drones won't help Washington win the larger war.
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