Drones in Pakistan in 2011 (NSC)
Reading List
Essential Resources
- “How a Single Phrase Defined the War on Terror,” CFR Education, August 30, 2023.
- Jayshree Bajoria and Greg Bruno, “al-Qaeda (a.k.a. al-Qaida, al Qa’ida),” Council on Foreign Relations, June 6, 2012.
- Thomas O. Falk, “How drones have added a new dynamic to conflicts,” Al Jazeera, February 20, 2021.
- Jonathan Masters, “Targeted Killings,” Council on Foreign Relations, May 23, 2013.
- Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt, “Biden Secretly Limits Counterterrorism Drone Strikes Away From War Zones,” New York Times, March 3, 2021.
- Daniel J. Rosenthal and Loren Dejonge Schulman, “Trump’s Secret War on Terror,” Atlantic, August 10, 2018.
- Adrian Brown, “Osama Bin Laden’s Death: How It Happened,” BBC, September 10, 2012.
- Max Fisher, “Does Killing Terrorist Leaders Make Any Difference? Scholars are Doubtful,” New York Times, August 30, 2016.
- Jason Lyall, “Drones Are Destabilizing Global Politics,” Foreign Affairs, December 16, 2020.
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Additional Resources
- BBC.com, “Drones: What Are They and How Do They Work?” January 31, 2012.
- Owen Bowcott, “Drone Strikes by US may violate international law, says UN,” Guardian, October 18, 2013.
- Center for Global Development, “Aid to Pakistan by the Numbers.”
- CFR.org, Global Conflict Tracker, “Instability in Pakistan.”
- Judy Dempsey, “Europe Stays Quiet Despite Unease About Drones,” New York Times, June 11, 2012.
- Sarah Kreps and Miles McCain, “Congress keeps quiet on U.S. drone policy - and that’s a big problem,” Washington Post, August 24, 2017.
- PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, “The Ethics of Drones,” March 2, 2012.
- Bruce Hoffman, “Al- Qaeda’s Resurrection,” Council on Foreign Relations, March 6, 2018.
- Bob Dreyfuss, “General Cartwright Warns of ‘Drone Blowback,’” Nation, March 22, 2013.
- Amanda Erikson, “The Long History of Incredibly Fraught Relations between the US and Pakistan,” Washington Post, January 5, 2018.
- “U.S.- Pakistan Military Cooperation,” Council on Foreign Relations, June 26, 2018.