Fighting Terrorism : Surveillance and Targeted Killing in Post-9/11 World.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I. Introduction -- II. Land of freedom or land of surveillance? Right to privacy in the U.S. after 9/11 -- Privacy and surveillance -- What is the right to privacy -- Rights of the government vs. rights of the governed -- Surveillance -- Historical development of surveillance legislation -- Legal context of the current surveillance issues -- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- United States Patriot Act -- Section 218 -- PRISM and upstream acquisition of Internet communications -- Bulk collection of telephony metadata program -- Challenges of Pandora's Box -- Pendulum effect: back to land of freedom -- Exploitation of the collected data -- III. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in U.S. National Security Policy: New Face of War on Terror -- Unmanned aerial vehicles -- Definitions -- History -- Unmanned aircraft in the military -- Significant manufacturers -- Cost-efficiency -- Limitations to the use of UAVs in the war on terror -- Legal issues -- Collateral damage -- Principles of foreign policy -- Media coverage -- Public opinion -- Public polls -- Technical, tactical, and operational challenges -- UAVs in the war on terror -- Somalia -- Yemen -- Afghanistan -- Pakistan -- Iraq -- Revolution in military affairs -- Theoretical concepts, definitions, schools -- Warrior ethos and just war -- IV. Conclusion -- V. Bibliography.

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