Critical Perspectives on Government-Sponsored Assassinations

by Anne C. Cunningham

State-sponsored assassinations have been used by the United States since the early twentieth century and became a major tactic used by presidential administrations in the 1980s to fight drug wars in South America. Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the United States has escalated its use of targeted killing. The CIA and Pentagon have employed the controversial practice more than ever before, and President Barack Obama's administration...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766084833
• ISBN13: 9780766084834
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 208 Pages
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12