Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins (48 page)

SPADR program

Special Activities Division (CIA)

Special Group (Augmented) (CIA)

Special Operations.
See also specific operations; regions; task forces; and units

Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

Special Operations Division (DEA)

Sprey, Pierre

SR-71 reconnaissance plane

Star Wars

State Department

stealth technology

Stevens, John Paul

stigmergy

Stimson, Henry

Stingray

Strategic Air Command

Suez crisis

suicide bombers

Sukarno

Sullivan, Leonard

Sunni Muslims

superdrones

surveillance systems

Swan, Fred

Syria

Takhar Province

Takur Ghar battle

Taliban

TALOS

targeted killing.
See
assassination; high-value targets; kingpin strategy

Tarnak Farms compound

Task Force 11

Task Force 180

Task Force 373

Task Force Alpha

Task Force ODIN

Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP)

Teledyne Ryan corporation

Templer, Gerald

Tenet, George

terrorists

watch lists

Terrorist Threat Integration Center (T-TIC)

Texas Instruments

Thailand

Thanh Hoa Bridge

Thornley, Ronald

Thuraya satellite phone

torture

total situational awareness

Trafficante, Santo

“Transforming Defense” (Krepinevich and Armitage)

Trans-Yemen pipeline

Triga research reactor

Triggerfish

Trohan, Walter

Trujillo, Rafael

Truman, Harry S.

TRW Inc.

Turco, Fred

Turkey

Turner, Stansfield

Turse, Nick

U-2 plane

United Arab Emirates

United Nations

Office on Drugs and Crime

U.S. Congress

U.S. embassies

African, bombings of 1998

Laos

U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation

U.S. House of Representatives

Armed Services Committee

Defense Appropriations Committee

Ethics Committee

Intelligence Committee

“U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations” (2013)

U.S. Senate

Appropriations Committee

Armed Services Committee

Intelligence Committee

National Defense Panel

Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator

Uruzgan Province

Uzbekistan

V-22 Osprey

Van Riper, Paul

Vessey, John

Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI)

Vietnam War

virtual base-tower receivers

Visclosky, Peter

Votel, Joseph

Vought Corporation

Wal-Mart

Warden, John

Warlock jammers

Warrick, Joby

Warhol, Andy

Washington Office on Latin America

Washington Post

Watergate scandal

Wazir, Nek Muhammed

Wazir, Sherabat Khan

Waziristan

Welch, Larry

Westmoreland, William

Wexford Group International

White, Letitia

Wikileaks

Winter Soldier movement

Wolfowitz, Paul

Woolsey, R. James

World Court

World Trade Center

World War I

World War II

World War III

Wuhayshi, Nasir al

X-47B prototypes

Yamamoto, Isoruku

Yeltsin, Boris

Yemen

Yothers, Charlie

Yousafzai, Malala

Yunis, Fawaz

Zarabia

Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-

Zawahiri, Ayman al-

Zindani, Majeed al-

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A
NDREW
C
OCKBURN
is the Washington Editor of
Harper’s
magazine and the author of many articles and books, principally on national security and military affairs, including the
New York Times
Editor’s Choice
Rumsfeld
and
The Threat,
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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

1
| Remember, Kill Chain

2
| Wiring the Jungle

3
| Turning People into Nodes

4
| Predator Politics

5
| It’s Not Assassination If We Do It

6
| Kingpins and Maniacs

7
| Legally Blind

8
| Kill Them! Prevail!

9
| Killing Effects

10
| A Piece of Junk

11
| Death by a Number

12
| Drones, Baby, Drones!

13
| One Big Robot

Notes

Index

About the Author

Copyright

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HAIN.
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