Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars

by Chris Woods

Book Overview

Less than a month after the September 11th attacks, a tiny, CIA-controlled Predator drone flew over Kandahar, searching out the home of the Taliban supreme commander Mullah Mohammed Omar. A lack of understanding of the drone's capabilities combined with a messy chain of command allowed Omar to escape, but the strike on a nearby convoy vehicle became the Predator's first lethal action. Since then, the use of armed drones has become the dominant American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190202599
• ISBN13: 9780190202590
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"