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The political role of drone strikes in US grand strategy

  • Written by Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Policy, US Naval War College

How do you feel about drone strikes? Chances are you have an opinion – or at least a gut reaction.

Years of debate on the issue show that many Americans have reservations. People are concerned that drone strikes devalue non-American lives, dangerously expand executive power, and drive terrorism and anti-Americanism.

Yet do we actually knowmuch...

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