Killing Machine (51 page)

potential threat,
x
,
197
,
204
,
218

Power, Samantha

     
on Bush, George W., administration COIN,
83–84

     
conservatives on foreign policy impact of,
84–85

     
in Obama administration,
82–85

     
Obama Nobel Prize speech input of,
82–83

     
on U.S. moral ideology and Iraq War,
83–84

Powers, Francis Gary,
190

pragmatism, Obama administration,
176
,
209–11

Predator drone,
xii

presidential authority

     
assassination of U.S. citizens and,
203–4

     
AUMF and,
185
,
205–6
,
219
,
240
,
242
,
245

     
Congressional approval of,
1
,
185
,
205
,
239

     
conservatives on Obama administration,
202–11
,
214–15

     
Constitutional violation and,
184–85
,
187

     
drone warfare, assassination, and,
129–31
,
134
,
141–43
,
172–73
,
215–16

     
judicial process and,
207–8

     
legal basis for,
143
,
204–7
,
215

     
media on,
203–4
,
207
,
215
,
216–17
,
227–28

     
national security and,
183–84
,
185–87
,
195
,
205
,
207
,
240–41

     
Nixon on wartime,
183–84

     
OLC on wartime,
130
,
195–96
,
207
,
215–16
,
226–27

presidential campaign, 2008

     
Clinton, Hillary’s,
10–11

     
Iraq War in,
x
,
10–11
,
12–14

     
Obama’s,
9–11
,
12–16
,
24–25
,
80–81

     
Republicans on Iraq War during,
10

     
troop surge and withdrawal time frame in,
18
,
20–21

presidential election, 2004,
8

presidential secrecy,
183–88

private military contractors,
104
,
118

progress measurements or metrics,
45
,
48
,
51

public opinion

     
on Afghan War,
197
,
198

     
of bin Laden death,
148
,
156

     
CIA in Pakistani,
153–54

     
drone warfare,
xi
,
74
,
133
,
135
,
144
,
155
,
188–89
,
216
,
218–19
,
223–24
,
239

     
drone warfare and Pakistani,
135
,
144
,
155
,
188–89
,
218–19
,
239

     
on Guantánamo closing,
90

     
troop surge in,
10

     
U.S. drone strikes and Muslim world,
170–71
,
210–11
,
222

     
U.S. military in Afghan,
201

     
Vietnam War, Greene, and American,
11–12

al Qaeda

     
Afghanistan violence of,
20

     
AUMF used against,
242

     
COIN conflating Taliban and,
39
,
43–44
,
46–47
,
48–49
,
75

     
COIN for,
37–39
,
43–44
,
46–47
,
48–49
,
75

     
drone warfare impact on,
136–37
,
159–60
,
161–62
,
210
,
218

     
history of UAV targeting,
vii
,
128–30

     
ideological struggle of United States and,
3–4

     
in Obama Nobel speech,
88–89

     
Saudi Arabia and U.S. relationship for,
222

     
Syrian rebel infiltration by,
196

     
Taliban relationship with,
157
,
158–59

al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

     
al-Awlaki, Anwar, as recruiter for,
166–67
,
168–69
,
174

     
Obama administration on al-Awlaki, Anwar, role in,
174

     
underwear bomber from,
168

     
in Yemen,
162–63
,
168
,
170
,
173

The Quiet American
(Greene),
11

Rasmussen, Fogh,
66–68

reconciliation,
97–98
,
107
,
109
,
115–16

regime change,
2–3
,
17
,
30–31
,
139
,
195–96

regional players, Afghanistan,
95

reintegration,
97–98
,
107
,
109
,
115–16

“remissioning,”
26

Republicans and Republican Party,
10
,
16
,
123–24
,
140–41
,
214–15

Rice, Condoleeza,
3–4
,
17
,
30–31

Ricks, Tom,
123

Riedel, Bruce,
37–39
,
58
,
126
,
155–56
,
252n13

Roggio, Bill,
217

Rosenberg, Matthew,
106

Rubin, Trudy,
48

Rumsfeld, Donald,
50

Rusk, Dean,
97–98

safety, U.S. military,
124

Saleh, Ali Abdullah,
163
,
170
,
177–78

Saleh, Amrullah,
115–16

Saudi Arabia,
220
,
221–22

Savage, Charlie,
207
,
266n9

secrecy

     
drone program,
vii
,
40
,
41
,
74
,
132–33
,
135–36
,
171
,
188
,
199–200
,
202–3
,
220–24

     
government and leaking of,
viii–ix
,
214
,
264n48

     
national security and,
215

     
Obama administration foreign policy,
vii–viii
,
193–94
,
220–22
,
223–24

     
presidential,
183–88

     
surrounding McChrystal,
50–51

     
U.S. special operations,
110–11

Shahzad, Faisal,
108

Shane, Scott,
76
,
209–10
,
211

Shelton, Hugh,
128

significant threat,
208–9
,
247

Snowden, Edward,
236

soft power or “cash surge,”
114–15

South Asia,
73–74
.
See also
Vietnam War

special operations, U.S.

     
in Afghan War,
107
,
109
,
110

     
independence and secrecy of,
110–11

     
night raids of,
107
,
109
,
110
,
113

     
for Obama administration,
110–11

stability operations,
179

stare decisis,
140

Steele, Jonathan,
66
,
98

Storm, Morton,
137–38

strategy.
See
counterinsurgency strategy

Sullivan, Margaret,
220–21

Syria,
196

Taft IV, William Howard,
141–42

Taliban,
68

     
Afghan defense forces infiltrated by,
201–2

     
civilians killed by,
107
,
112

     
COIN conflating al Qaeda and,
39
,
43–44
,
46–47
,
48–49
,
75

     
COIN for,
39
,
43–44
,
45
,
46–47
,
48–49
,
117

     
drone strikes against,
247–48

     
as employment,
49
,
79
,
97
,
100

     
global jihadism impact from victory of,
36

     
ideology and,
100–101

     
intimidation from,
112

     
ISI contacting and aiding,
47
,
95–96
,
159

     
Kandahar control by,
93–94

     
in Marja campaign,
99–102
,
112

     
NATO convoys bribing,
118

     
Obama administration on negotiations with,
157–58

     
in Pakistan,
108
,
159
,
247
,
254n20

     
peace negotiations,
115–16
,
158–59

     
al Qaeda relationship with,
157
,
158–59

     
reintegration and reconciliation,
97–98
,
115–16

Tapper, Jake,
216–17

targeting and targeting list

     
assassination compared to lawful,
206–7

     
CIA,
189

     
drone warfare and assassination by,
136–37

     
drone warfare “rule hook” for,
ix
,
131
,
211
,
216
,
231–32

     
legal basis for,
143
,
206
,
225

     
al Qaeda UAV,
vii
,
128–30

     
significant threat for inclusion on,
208–9
,
247

     
terrorist capture as alternative to,
241–42

     
of U.S. citizens,
111
,
168–69
,
212
,
214–15
,
225–26
,
227–28
,
229
,
235
,
237–38

technical covertness,
203

technology

     
drone program,
134
,
144
,
160
,
213
,
232

     
terrorism facilitated by,
89

     
in war,
194–95
,
213–14

terrorism and terrorists.
See also
al-Awlaki, Anwar
;
bin Laden, Osama
;
counterinsurgency strategy
;
Haqqani terrorist network
;
insurgency and insurgent groups, Afghanistan
;
9/11 terror attack
;
al Qaeda
;
war on terror