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February 3, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: 2012 National Security Threat Assessment, Drone Strikes, and More

2012 THREAT ASSESSMENT Selections from the Hearing of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, "World Wide Threats," January 31, 2012. Senator Fienstein: Closer to home, since our hearing las…

National intelligence hearing

March 9, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Syria, Iran, and Targeted Killings

Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, "The Situation in Syria," March 7, 2012. SENATOR WEBB: I want to ask you about one thing that you said, because I think we all need to think about i…

Khamenei votes

April 13, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Night Raids, and the Appeal and Cost of Nuclear Weapons

“Piracy and Private Security,” The Economist, April 14, 2012. Private security teams patrol the decks of around 40% of large vessels in the “high-risk area” that stretches from the Persian Gulf…

Night raid training

July 5, 2012

Military Operations
How the Obama Administration Justifies Targeted Killings

Despite almost ten years of operations and nearly four hundred airstrikes that killed an estimated three thousand people (both militants and civilians), both the Bush and Obama administrations have p…

Holder Northwestern

July 16, 2012

Defense and Security
Targeted Killings and Signature Strikes

In his memoir My American Journey, Colin Powell recollects his tours in Vietnam, first as a U.S. Army captain in 1962 and 1963, and later as a major in 1968 and 1969. Due to the length of the war, Po…

Rose garden