Center for Strategic Communication

Legal Reasoning Must Not Be Secret

By Patricia Lee Sharpe and Patricia H. Kushlis CNN reports that “the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday morning will receive a classified document that seeks to justify the administration's policy of targeting Americans overseas via drone attacks.”  ...

Targeted Killings and Pakistan: Focus on the Policy

Some familiarity with strategic theory might not save the hopelessly confused debate on targeted killings in the “AfPak” region, but it might help. The basics: policy is a condition or behavior. Strategy is an instrumental device that accomplishes the...

ASP’s research on drones in the New York Times

ASP’s research on drones is cited in the New York Times.  Drawing on Joshua Foust and Ashley Boyle’s paper, “The Strategic Context of Lethal Drones,” a roundtable discussion held at ASP’s offices, and a fact sheet on the subject, the...