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?

Show Notes

Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center. He is a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. He is also Adjunct Faculty Member at the Center for Military and Security Law at the Australian National University College of Law, and an International Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Professional Service Firms. He is the author of Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer, and co-author of Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry and Legal Ethics in Corporate Practice. Professor Regan served as law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on the U.S. Supreme Court, and then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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