Conventional Weapons
Nov 29, 2010
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Jan 13, 2011
Remote control killings by unmanned drones in Pakistan will not end the war in Afghanistan or make our country more secure.
The failure of the U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan to contain the anti-government insurgency has led the Obama administration to expand the undeclared war in Pakistan. According to the Long War Journal, the number of U.S. attacks in Pakistan, using unmanned Predator drones, has gone from five in 2007 to 117 in 2010.
Government officials here in Washington say privately that they expect the covert war to expand even further this year. Yet Congress and the public have undertaken no significant examination of this new war's consequences.
Dec 29, 2010
The failed U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan is leading the Obama administration to expand the undeclared war in Pakistan. One aspect of this new war is the escalating number of targeted assassinations by unmanned drones. According to the Long War Journal, the number of U.S. drone strikes has risen from 35 in the last year of the Bush administration to an estimated 115 in 2010.
Dec 17, 2010
The US military led strategy in Afghanistan is spreading resistance and anti-American sentiment to Pakistan, and increasing instability in the region. The US must rethink and abandon this military led strategy or risk escalating the US war in Afghanistan to neighboring countries.
Nov 30, 2010
One year after President Obama’s December 1, 2009 address to a captive West Point audience, US policy in Afghanistan is not producing regional stability or a way to end the war.
Nov 22, 2010
On November 13th the New York Times launched an online interactive you-fix-the-deficit-puzzle. The Budget Puzzle allows readers to pick and choose what they would cut from the budget or what taxes they would raise in order to close the ballooning deficit. The puzzle has been well received with over 1 million views.
Nov 17, 2010
Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution—Kroc Institute for Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. I asked her about U.S. Drones and Targeted Killings.
