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Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues Paperback – November 3, 2014

by Marjorie Cohn (Editor), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

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EXPERT ANALYSIS OF AN ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL PRACTICE

The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected terrorists; the Obama administration assassinates them. Assassination, or targeted killing, off the battlefield not only causes more resentment against the United States, it is also illegal. In this interdisciplinary collection, human rights and political activists, policy analysts, lawyers and legal scholars, a philosopher, a journalist, and a sociologist examine different aspects of the U.S. policy of targeted killing with drones and other methods. It explores the legality, morality and geopolitical considerations of targeted killing and resulting civilian casualties, and evaluates the impact on relations between the United States and affected countries.

The book includes the documentation of civilian casualties by the leading non-governmental organization in this area; stories of civilians victimized by drones; an analysis of the first U.S. targeted killing lawsuit by the lawyer who brought the case; a discussion of the targeted killing cases in Israel by the director of PCATI which filed one of the lawsuits; the domestic use of drones; and the immorality of drones using Just War principles.

Contributors include: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Phyllis Bennis, Medea Benjamin, Marjorie Cohn, Richard Falk, Tom Hayden, Pardiss Kebriaei, Jane Mayer, Ishai Menuchin, Jeanne Mirer, John Quigley, Dr. Tom Reifer, Alice Ross, Jay Stanley, and Harry Van der Linden.

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''This book provides much-needed analysis of why America's targeted killing program is illegal, immoral and unwise.'' --from the foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Very important book... In a few months we will commemorate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, which, despite the limits of the day, established the founding principle of modern law: presumption of innocence. Today that principle has been rescinded. Guilty verdicts are no longer to be rendered by a jury of peers, but by a White House session deciding who we are going to kill today along with whatever unfortunates happen to be in the vicinity of the drone attack. As these valuable essays show, Obama s global terror campaign is a menace to the world, and Americans are not likely to escape unscathed.
Noam Chomsky

Armed unmanned drones have radically reduced the practical constraints on the use of force, and in so doing present challenging legal, political and moral issues. This hard-hitting collection offers multiple critiques of drone targeting, raising if not resolving -- many of the questions that must be asked as nations increasingly develop and deploy unarmed drones as a security tool.
David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center

Just weeks before 9/11, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, told the Israelis: The United States government is very clearly on the record as against targeted assassinations. They are extrajudicial killings, and we do not support that. This extraordinary collection shows how two presidents abandoned that principled stand and, more importantly, the need to reclaim it. --Mary Ellen O'Connell, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

Very important book... In a few months we will commemorate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, which, despite the limits of the day, established the founding principle of modern law: presumption of innocence. Today that principle has been rescinded. Guilty verdicts are no longer to be rendered by a jury of peers, but by a White House session deciding who we are going to kill today along with whatever unfortunates happen to be in the vicinity of the drone attack. As these valuable essays show, Obama s global terror campaign is a menace to the world, and Americans are not likely to escape unscathed.
Noam Chomsky

Armed unmanned drones have radically reduced the practical constraints on the use of force, and in so doing present challenging legal, political and moral issues. This hard-hitting collection offers multiple critiques of drone targeting, raising if not resolving -- many of the questions that must be asked as nations increasingly develop and deploy unarmed drones as a security tool.
David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center

Just weeks before 9/11, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, told the Israelis: The United States government is very clearly on the record as against targeted assassinations. They are extrajudicial killings, and we do not support that. This extraordinary collection shows how two presidents abandoned that principled stand and, more importantly, the need to reclaim it. --Mary Ellen O'Connell, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

About the Author

Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her books include Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law; Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent (with Kathleen Gilberd); and the edited volume, The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse. Cohn is a recipient of the Peace Scholar of the Year Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association. She testified before Congress about the Bush torture policy.

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Publisher : Olive Branch Pr (November 3, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 296 pages
ISBN-10 : 1566569893
ISBN-13 : 978-1566569897
Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.96 x 0.77 x 9.06 inches

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A Must Read!

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A great book! As a retired officer, Prof Cohn provides a balanced, fair, thought provoking presentation that should be read by all professional officers. A must read for all who care about our military policy. The book has my highest praise!

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David Gespass

Read It Before It's Too Late

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2015

Drones, on the one hand, are just a more sophisticated form of warfare, safer for the attacker, than what has gone before. They do, however, create their own peculiar dangers and threaten to become ever more dangerous as countries other than the United States start using them. We would all do well to understand their potential sooner rather than later.
Knowledge, it is said, is power. If so, this book places a great deal of power in the hands of the reader and Tom Hayden, in the concluding essay, suggests just how that power can be used to stop the cancerous spread of drones before it metastasizes to the point where we cannot turn back. The crucial messages conveyed by the book are that the use of drones threaten us all and that we can do something about them.

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Margot

An Invaluable Resource

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2015

I didn't know how much there was to learn about drones before I read this book. It was informative, interesting and comprehensive. A must-read if you want to understand both how the United States is using drone warfare today and the issues raised by its targeted-killing program.

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Jerry Wallingford

An informative book about military and civilian use of drones

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2015

This book provides valuable information on an issue that is becoming more significant every day. Although it primarily addresses the use and misuse of weaponized drones by the US government, it also gives the reader a "heads up" about drone issues that may affect our daily lives in the near future. If you want to stay ahead of the curve on the drone issue, this book is a must read.

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A must read!

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2015

Absolutely accessible. So much information (that we need/want to know) that I reread it.
A must read for anyone who cares--and wants details about--human rights, national security and the future.

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Peter Kerr

Well researched and much needed

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015

Clear, insightful and well-researched work. Everyone, whether pro or con, would do well to read this book because this a such a serious and topical issue. It seems that the apologists for drone warfare have played fast and loose with the facts and this book helps to set the record straight.

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Wordsmith

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Look at me! I work for Northrup Grumman. It's an airplane!

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Luca Gervasoni

Outstanding contributions to justice

Reviewed in Italy on January 29, 2016

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Deep analysis of the phenomenon, especially to be appreciated for its inter-disciplinary approach which highlights the root causes of an horrific practice, points out the shift in public opinion towards more permissive approaches and, at the same time, provides a very interesting legal analysis, besides giving a voice to victims that have been otherwise silenced forever

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