Drone Strikes

The US Military has been using unmanned vehicles for kinetic strikes for well over a decade. And recently, we've all seen the devastating effect of these so-called drones on the news from the Ukraine. In his new book, Professor Mitt Regan offers an assessment of one of the most important instruments in the war on terror: the use of armed drones to kill terrorist leaders. What is a targeted killing? Was the sustained application of the campaign in the Afghanistan tribal areas been successful? What have we learned from the results of the strikes?