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Predators: The CIA’s Drone War on Al Qaeda
Brian Glyn Williams
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Description for Predators: The CIA’s Drone War on Al Qaeda
Hardback. Num Pages: 295 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 222 x 26. Weight in Grams: 602.
Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIA's and U.S. military's most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies, terrorists, insurgents, and innocent tribal peoples who have been killed in the covert operation—the CIA's largest assassination campaign since the Vietnam War era—being waged in Pakistan's tribal regions via remote control aircraft known as drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles. Having traveled extensively in the Pashtun tribal areas while working for the U.S. military and the CIA, Williams explores in detail the new ... Read more
Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIA's and U.S. military's most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies, terrorists, insurgents, and innocent tribal peoples who have been killed in the covert operation—the CIA's largest assassination campaign since the Vietnam War era—being waged in Pakistan's tribal regions via remote control aircraft known as drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles. Having traveled extensively in the Pashtun tribal areas while working for the U.S. military and the CIA, Williams explores in detail the new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
595g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612346175
SKU
V9781612346175
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About Brian Glyn Williams
BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS earned his first master s at the Central Eurasian studies program at Indiana University and a second master s in Russian history and a PhD in Central Asian history from the University of Wisconsin. Among his published works are Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America s Longest War (2011) and the upcoming The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of ... Read more
Reviews for Predators: The CIA’s Drone War on Al Qaeda
"Predators: The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda is a sober reflection on how the CIA's drone assassination campaigns in Pakistan and Yemen have reduced the chance of terror attacks but radicalized survivors and killed civilians in the process."—Will Hodgkinson, Times (London) "Predators is recommended reading to those interested in how US counterterrorism efforts in Pakistan and elsewhere have affected ... Read more