Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins (46 page)

So in 2013 the U.S. Navy: Government Accountability Office, “Navy Strategy for Unmanned Carrier-Based Aircraft System Defers Key Oversight Mechanisms,” GAO-13-833, September 26, 2013.

That feat was ultimately accomplished: “X-47 Makes Successful Launch,”
Defense News
, May 14, 2013.

Already, a single Global Hawk drone: GlobalSecurity.org, “Satellite Bandwidth.”
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/bandwidth.htm
.

In 2009, Shia insurgents in Iraq: Barry Watts, “The Maturing Revolution in Military Affairs,” Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (2011), p. 17.

GPS signals … equivalent of a car headlight: Paul Marks, “TV and Radio Signals Take Over when GPS Goes Wrong,”
New Scientist
blog, June 29, 2012.

As an Iranian engineer explained: Scott Peterson, “Exclusive: Iran Hijacked US Drone, Says Iranian Engineer,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 15, 2011.

Despite energetic attempts by U.S. officials: David Axe, “Did Iran Capture a US drone Intact?” DangerRoom,
Wired
, December 4, 2011.

Todd Humphreys: Cyrus Fariver, “Professor Fools $80M Superyacht’s GPS Receiver on the High Seas,”
ars technica
, July 30, 2013.

Nevertheless, the supposed imminence: Daniel Suarez: “The Kill Decision Shouldn’t Belong to a Robot,”
TED Global
, June 2013.

In November 2012, Human Rights Watch: “Advancing the Debate on Killer Robots,” Human Rights Watch, May 2014.

“an absolute must”: Stew Magnuson, “Military ‘Swimming in Sensors and Drowning in Data,’”
National Defense
, January 2010.

The Office of Naval Research has even funded: Sebastian Anthony, “U.S. Military Begins Research into Moral, Ethical Robots,”
Extreme Technology
, May 9, 2014.

An experiment involving two small drones: Peter Finn, “A Future for Drones: Automated Killing,”
Washington Post
, September 19, 2011.

According to an al-Qaeda tip sheet, “Revealed: al-Qaeda’s 22 Tips for Dodging Drones,”
Daily Telegraph
, February 22, 2013.

But it has become clearer: Hubert L. Dreyfus,
What Computers Still Can’t Do
(Boston: MIT Press, 1992); Tao Ruspoli, “Being in the World,” Mangusta Films, 2011.
http://beingintheworldmovie.com/
.

“We kept decapitating the leadership of these groups”: James Kitfield, “Flynn’s Last Interview: Iconoclast Departs DIA With a Warning,” Breaking Defense, August 7, 2014.
http://breakingdefense.com/2014/08/flynns-last-interview-intel-iconoclast-departs-dia-with-a-warning
. Accessed August 9, 2014.

Among the recipients: Bryan Bender, “Air War in ISIS Fight Gets Guidance from Cape,”
Boston Globe
, September 26, 2014.

As David Deptula promised: Aaron Mehta, “Experts: As Operation Continues, ISR Demand to Grow in Syria,”
Defense News
, September 29, 2014.

Wall Street analysts hailed the prospect: Tony Newmayer, “The War on ISIS Already Has a Winner: The Defense Industry,”
Fortune
, September 13, 2014.

INDEX

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A2/AD (antiaccess/area denial)

A-10 Warthog

A-37 bombers

Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith

Abizaid, John

Abu Ghraib

AC-130 Specter gunship

Adams, Sam

Adel, Saif al-

Aegis antimissile capabilities

Afghanistan

bin Laden targeted in

elections

Gorgon Stare and

IEDs and

Palantir and

phone traffic

Predator and

Seeker and

Shahikot battle

Soviet war of 1980s

Uruzgar attack of 2010

war of 2001–present

Afghanistan Analysts Network

Africa

Africa Division (CIA)

Ahmar, Sheikh Abdullah al-

Air Force.
See also specific agencies; bases; military actions; and weapons

A-10 Warthog and

budget of

chief of staff

cold war and

DCGS and

drones and

drug war and

Global Hawk and

Gorgon Stare and

Gulf War and

Igloo White and

Mitchell and

Predator and

rivalry with other services

Serbia and

Vietnam and

WWII and

Air Force Armaments Center

Air Force Combat Command

Air Force Deputy Director for Strategy, Doctrine, and War-Fighting

Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency

Air Force Special Operations Command

Air Force Times

“Air Sea Battle” (2013)

Air Support Operations Center

Al-Askar shrine

Albania

Alec Station

Alexander, Keith

Al-Jazeera TV network

Allied Force, Operation

Allman, T. D.

al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda in Iraq

al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

al-Qaeda in Yemen

Amanullah, Zabet

Amber

American citizens, summary execution of

Amin, Khalid

Amin, Mohammed

Anaconda, Operation

Analysis Corporation

Angel Fire

Angleton, James Jesus

Angolan Civil War

Aphrodite, Operation

Armitage, Richard

Army

Army Air Corps

Army Delta Force

Army Field Manual (FM3–24)

Army Rangers

Army Security Agency (ASA)

Arquilla, John

Artimes, Manual

Ashcroft, John

Ashworth, Sid

assassinations.
See also
high-value targets; kill chain; kill lists; kingpin strategy

ban on, by Executive Order

CIA and

cold war and

counterterrorism

drug war and

Hitler and

international law and

Iraq and “Kill TV”

Israel and

Libya and

Nicaragua and

Obama and

Parks memo on

post-9/11 timeline

Vietnam and

WWII and

Assault Breaker

Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International

Atef, Mohammed

Attack the Network

AWACS

Awlaki, Anwar al-

B-1 bomber

B-2 strategic bomber

B-24 bomber

B-47 bomber

B-52 bomber

Babaker, Sultan Fareed bin

Badani, Shawqui Ali Ahmed al-

Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-

Bagram base

Balad air force base

Balawi, Humam

Balkans

ballistic missiles

Banna, Ibrahim al-

“barrel of terror” thesis

Bay of Pigs invasion

BBC

Beech Aircraft

Bell Boeing

Berg, Nicholas

Berger, Sandy

Bernadotte, Folke

Big Safari

bin Laden, Mohammed

bin Laden, Osama

Bissell, Richard

Black, Cofer

black programs

Blackwater

Blair, Dennis

Blee, Richard

Blue, Linden

Blue, Neal

Boeing

Boeing 707

Boeing 737

Bombardier Dash-8

Bonner, Robert

Booz Allen

Border Patrol

Borges, Jorge Luis

Bosnia

Boyd, John

Brennan, John

Britain

Royal Air Force

Special Branch

Special Operations Executive (SOE)

Brookings Institution

Brown, Harold

Bryant, Brandon

Bundy, McGeorge

Bush, George H. W. (Bush I)

Bush, George W. (Bush II)

C-130J transport plane

CACI International

Calamar, Colombia

Calderón, Felipe

Cali cartel

Cambodia

Campbell, Scott “Soup”

Camp Lemonnier

Camp Liberty

Camp Nama

Camp Peary

Camp Slayer

Cannon Air Force Base

Carter, Jimmy

Cartwright, James “Hoss”

Casey, George

Casey, William

Cassidy, Thomas

Castro, Fidel

Cebrowski, Arthur

cell phones

Center for Naval Analysis

Center for Responsibility and Ethics

centers of gravity

Central Command (Centcom)

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
See also specific departments, operations, and technologies

Afghanistan and

Africa and

assassinations and

bin Laden and

Brennan and

budget of

Camp Peary

cold war and

counterterrorism and

creation of

drones and

drug war and

European desk

FARC and

Helms dinner

Iraq and

Laos and

9/11 and

Obama and

Pakistan and

Palantir and

Predator and

scandals and

targeters recruited by

torture

U-2 and

Vietnam and

Yemen and

chain of command

change detection

“Change in the Nature of Warfare” (Deptula)

Chapman, Jorn

Checkmate

Cheney, Dick

Chicago Tribune

China

Christian Science Monitor

Christie, Tom

Churchill, Winston

Clapper, James R.

Clark, Kate

Clark, Wesley K.

Clarke, Carter

Clarke, Richard

Clarridge, Duane “Dewey”

Clay, Lucius

Clinton, Bill

Coats, Dan

cocaine

Colby, William

cold war

Cole
, USS, bombing

Colombia

Combined Intelligence Center (Saigon)

Combined Joint Task Force

communications

Compass Call Nova

Condor

Congressional Ethics Office

Constant Hawk

Copeland Lowery Jacquez

counterinsurgency (COIN)

counterterrorism

Counterterrorism Center (CTC, CIA)

Crane, Barry

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Creech Air Force Base (Nevada)

Crime and Narcotics Center (CIA)

critical nodes

Cuba

Czechoslovakia

Da Nang air force base

Datta Khel strike

Davis, Raymond

Dawood, Malik

Dear, Keith

decapitation

“deck of cards,” Iraq and

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Defense News

defense spending

outsourcing and

secrecy and

sequestration and

de Hoffman, Freddy

Delta Force

Dempsey, Martin

Deptula, David

Derwish, Kamal

Desert Storm

Designated Global Terrorists list

Dewey, Thomas

Dicter, Avi

Digital Management

Directorate of Intelligence (CIA)

Directorate of Operations (CIA)

Directorate of Plans (CIA)

Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS)

DCGS-A (Army)

DCGS-N (Navy)

Djibouti

Dogar, Abdullah

domestic law enforcement

domestic surveillance

Dominican Republic

Donovan, William

Dorrian, John

Douhet, Giulio

Dreyfus, Hubert

drones.
See also
Predator;
and other specific types

Afghanistan and

Africa and

Air Force and

Army and

assassination and

autonomous

Balkans and

bin Laden and

Brennan and

cell-phone tracking and

CIA and

contractors and

cost of

crews

DCGS and

development of

drug war and

Gates and

global network and

imagery and

Iraq and

JSOC and

kill chain and

lobbying and

Millennium Challenge and

National Defense Panel and

9/11 and

Obama and

Pacific and

Pakistan and

superdrones

testing of

video captured by insurgents

Vietnam and

weaponization of

Yemen and

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

drug war

Drumm, Hugh

Druyun, Darleen

Dubai

Dulles, Allen

Duvalier, Francois “Papa Doc”

Early, Steve

East European Division (CIA)

Easton, Roger L.

Eden, Anthony

EDO Corporation

effects-based operations (EBO)

Eglin Air Force Base (Florida)

Egypt

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory (ESL)

Ellsberg, Daniel

enemy combatants

Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite (EISS)

Escalante, Fabien

Escobar, Pablo

Ethiopia

EUR-1 (Germany)

EUR-2 (Italy)

“executive action”

Executive Order 11905

F-4 Phantom fighter

F-15 fighter

F-16 fighter

F-18 fighter bomber

F-86 fighter

F-111 bomber

F-117 stealth bomber

F/A-18 Growler plane

Fallujah

FARC guerrillas

Fazlullah, Maulana

FD/Trodpint team

Federal Aviation Authority

Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI)

fiber-optic cables

“Fido” (molecular sniffer)

53D Wing testing unit

first circle

five rings strategy

Flynn, Michael

Fogelman, Ronald

Ford, Gerald

Fort Bragg