Djibouti indeed was the centerpiece: Eric Schmidt, “U.S. Signs New Lease to Keep Strategic Military Installation in the Horn of Africa,” New York Times, May 5, 2014.
The camp, home to the JSOC drones: Nick Turse, “The Next Generation of Shadow Wars: America’s Military-Industrial Complex Is Expanding,” Salon, April 14, 2014.
Even less visibly, the U.S. Air Force was maintaining: Joe Trevithick, “The Pentagon Plans for More Drones in More Places,” Medium.com/War-Is-Boring, April 14, 2014.
As of 2014 the air force planned to have 346 of these: Inside Defense.com, “Air Force to Acquire Fleet of 346 Reapers by FY-21, 55 Fewer Than Planned,” March 6, 2014.
of which more than 80 would likely be under CIA control: Aram Roston, “Targeted Killing: CIA’s Fleet of 80+ UAVs Unlikely to Be Transferred to Military,” Defense News, May 15, 2013.
a new acronym entered military jargon: Air-Sea Battle Office, “Air Sea Battle, Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access & Area Denial Issues,” Department of Defense, May 2013. http://www.defense.gov/pubs/ASB-ConceptImplementation-Summary-May-2013.pdf.
Thanks to Predator and Reaper: The Federal Procurement Data System has provided the following report on the top 100 defense contractors in 2013: FY https://www.fpds.gov/downloads/top_requests/Top_100_Contractors_Report_Fiscal_Year_2013.xls. Accessed July 30, 2014.
For the twelve Reapers the air force planned to buy: InsideDefense.com, March 6, 2014.
Boeing’s F/A-18 “Growler” electronic warfare plane: Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 President’s Budget Submission: Navy Justification Book, Vol. 1: Aircraft Procurement, Navy Budget Activities 1–4, pp. 1–15.
while Lockheed was happily extracting $106 million for the C-130J transport plane: U.S. Department of Defense, “Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) Summary Tables As of December 31, 2013.”
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
Fort Hood killings
Fort Huachuca
Foster, John S.
Foxley, Operation
Fox News
France
Franks, Tommy
“From Douhet to Deptula” (Van Riper)
Fulda Gap
Gannon, Kathy
Gard, Robert
Garlasco, Marc
Garwin, Richard
Garza, David
Gates, Robert M.
General Accounting Office (GAO)
General Atomics
General Dynamics
GeoInt convention
geolocation
Germany
Nazi
postwar
Gibbons, Dawn
Gibbons, Jim
Gintile, Gian
Global Hawk
Global Positioning System (GPS)
“Global Reach—Global Power” (Deptula)
Gómez, Joaquín
Gopal, Anand
Gorgon Stare
Gotcha radar
Grasse, Jean Pierre
Gregg, Don
Grenier, Robert
Grumman. See also Lockheed Grumman
Guadalcanal, Battle of
Guam
Guantánamo
Guardian
Guatemala
Gulf War (1991)
Hadi, Abd Rubbah Mansour
Hagel, Chuck
Hagenback, H. L. “Buster”
Haig, Alexander
Haiti
Hanoi, bombing of
Haqqanis
Harboni, Allah
Harithi, Qa’id Salim Sinan al-
Harrison, Marshall
Hasan, Nidal Malik
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