Using drones: principles, tactics and results (amended title)

[Fuchs]

or
4. Capturing is too much hassle because there's no evidence or even only crime to justify detention.

[carl]

or
4. Capturing is too much hassle because there's no evidence or even only crime to justify detention.

Indeed. Which means we are killing people just on general principles. This is not going to end well.

[davidbfpo]

Carl,

Gregory Johnsen, a Yemen expert and Clint Watts have been "ding, dong" on Twitter on this latest drone strike in Yemen. I posted Gregory's recent comments on US intell in Yemen, see Post 74:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...t=12784&page=4

[davidbfpo]

The thread title includes results, so here are some.

Notwithstanding the Twitter and elsewhere traffic on the recent spike in drone strikes in the Yemen; now with a third failure to get their target - there is this CNN roundup:http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/1...12/?hpt=hp_bn2

It shows ten deaths, with seven attributed to drones, although I'd add one in the Phillipines which few thought the Phill. AF did IIRC.

[davidbfpo]

..a look at U.S. actions in the past makes it possible to reverse-engineer a rough decision tree for certain types of suspects.

Link:http://www.theatlantic.com/misc/disposition-matrix/

[jmm99]

If the answer to their question #10 ("Is US capture plausible?") is negative, then we proceed to either a personality strike or a signature strike as hypothesized here, One Strike You're Out ??

Regards

Mike

[Fuchs]

Link:http://www.theatlantic.com/misc/disposition-matrix/

Wasn't there some propaganda-only guy killed in Yemen a year or so ago?
That case would not fit into this scheme at all.

[omarali50]

btw, re the latest high profile victim, Mulla Nazir: http://www.brownpundits.com/2013/01/...-nazir-speaks/