by aelkus | Aug 27, 2013 | Monitor
Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal has proposed killing Syria’s President Bashar Assad with airpower. And not just Assad himself: Should President Obama decide to order a military strike against Syria, his main order of business must be to kill Bashar...
by dtrombly | May 29, 2013 | Monitor
From what we know from seemingly deliberate leaks on the eve of Obama’s major counterterrorism speech at the National Defense University last week, the most widely criticized ongoing aspect of America’s counterterrorism program, the “signature strikes,” against those...
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 5, 2013 | Monitor
Now that the White House will let senators read the legal memos justifying its targeted killing efforts, Senate opposition to John Brennan’s nomination to run the CIA is expected to drop.
by Charles G. Kels | Feb 9, 2013 | Monitor
By: Charles G. Kels The white paper on targeted killing is less chilling than confused–the work of constitutional lawyers who appear to lack familiarity with the laws of war.
by Joshua Foust | Sep 26, 2012 | Monitor
Ho New/Reuters Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s regular column for The Atlantic. A new report excoriates the United States’ unmanned aerial strikes against terrorists in South Asia. But are there better alternatives? A new report, “Living Under...