Drone strikes in Pakistan: my interpretation
Good old Karen Anne DeYoung has a piece in the Washington Post today making the case for drone strikes. I think this is all part of wrapping up the strikes-effectively, her sources are conceding the end of the program in the coming months, but making the case for posterity that they did too work, no ...
Good old Karen Anne DeYoung has a piece in the Washington Post today making the case for drone strikes. I think this is all part of wrapping up the strikes-effectively, her sources are conceding the end of the program in the coming months, but making the case for posterity that they did too work, no matter what those mean COINdinistas Kilcullen and Exum say.
I think this is of a piece with replacing Gen. David McKiernan with Gen. Stanley McChrystal. If you can’t do drone strikes, you are occasionally gonna need to whack people with covert strikes of another sort. Manned raids, as it were. And who knows those better than Stan?
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