LEADER 02151nam 22004213 450 001 9910132327803321 005 20250525090321.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000278856 035 $a(BIP)044575939 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32128956 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32128956 035 $a(OCoLC)861276491 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000278856 100 $a20250525d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Permanent War $eRise of the Drones 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cDiversion Publishing Corp.,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013. 215 $a1 online resource (115 p.) 225 1 $aSpecial Investigative Report 311 08$a1-62681-000-1 330 8 $aThe Pulitzer Prize-nominated examination of the United States drone campaign, and U.S. counterterrorism policies.On January 30, 2013, President Barack Obama acknowledged publicly what most Americans already knew: The U.S. government was operating a covert drone campaign in Pakistan. Even as Obama maintained policy was for judicious actions only, his own administration was drawing up secret plans to institutionalize targeted killings in U.S. counter-terrorism policy.The scope of those plans remained hidden until The Washington Post published a three-part series as reporters Craig Whitlock, Greg Miller, Karen DeYoung, and Julie Tate explored how the use of drones moved from a temporary means to kill terrorists to a permanent weapon of war.Collected together for the first time, ?THE PERMANENT WAR is the result of a year of investigative reporting on the who, what, and how behind the targeted killing policies that will from the core of American counter-terrorism efforts for years to come. 410 0$aSpecial Investigative Report 517 $apermanent war 610 $aPolitical Science 700 $aThe Washington Post$b The Washington$01780223 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910132327803321 996 $aThe Permanent War$94382977 997 $aUNINA