Authors: Lloyd C. Gardner
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Grassley, Charles,
214–15
Greene, Graham,
11–12
green-on-blue threat,
201–2
Hadi, Abdu Rabu Mansour,
222
Hagel, Chuck,
182
hammer-and-anvil approach,
76–77
Haqqani, Badruddin,
219
Haqqani terrorist network,
189
ISI connection with,
95–96
,
116
,
149
,
161–62
,
219
Pakistan’s Afghanistan interest involving,
152
peace negotiations attack by,
116
Harman, Jane,
175
Hart, Gary,
235
Hasan, Nidal,
165–67
Hastings, Michael,
120
,
121
,
122–23
history
Bush, George W., administration on Vietnam,
11–12
Iraq War justifications from,
3–4
,
5
,
11–12
,
30–31
,
221
Obama administration engagement with Middle East,
25–26
of UAV targeting of al Qaeda,
vii
,
128–30
U.S. postwar response in,
28–29
Holbrooke, Richard,
37
,
121
,
123–24
,
150
,
253n7
Holder, Eric,
204–5
,
206–7
,
208
,
215
,
237–38
humanitarian intervention,
244
ideology
of Gates,
27
for insurgents,
115
Iraq War and U.S. moral,
4–5
,
83–84
al Qaeda and U.S. struggle of,
3–4
Taliban and,
100–101
of terrorism and terrorists,
13–14
imminent threat
drone strike threshold of,
247–48
potential versus,
x
,
197
,
204
,
218
significant compared to,
208–9
,
247
terrorism and defining,
x
,
197
,
204
,
226
,
242–43
,
247–48
imperialism
Gates’ social,
60–61
liberal,
243–44
life cycle for,
264n40
presidential,
183–85
pundits on Afghanistan,
71–72
inauguration speech, Bush, George W.,
8–9
independence, U.S. special operations,
110–11
Indyk, Martin,
127
innocents, killing of,
xii
insurgency and insurgent groups, Afghanistan.
See also
al Qaeda
;
Taliban
global jihadism impact from victory of,
36
,
38–39
ideology for,
115
Karzai government links to,
118
location of,
48
U.S. peace and governance offer to,
37
intelligence services.
See specific topics
international coalition,
47
,
66–67
,
68–69
,
87–88
international law,
138–39
,
203
,
216
.
See also
Koh, Harold Hongju and Koh speech
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF),
89
,
103–4
Iran,
189–93
Iraq War.
See also
troop surge
;
withdrawal time frame, Iraq War
Afghan War undermined by,
62–63
,
66
,
94
Bush, George W., administration justifications and determination for,
vii
,
2–4
,
17
,
30–31
,
131
,
221
civil war within,
183
Democratic response to,
2
,
7–8
,
10–11
drone attack used in,
131–32
historical justifications for,
3–4
,
5
,
11–12
,
30–31
,
221
nature of,
3
new terrorist threat from,
13–14
Obama opposition to and criticism of,
1–3
,
10–11
,
12–14
,
21–22
,
175
in presidential campaign of 2008,
x
,
10–11
,
12–14
regime change justifications for,
2–3
,
17
,
30–31
Resolution,
2
troop surge from Bush, George W., administration in,
9
,
16–25
,
182–83
U.S. moral ideology and,
4–5
,
83–84
views of Republicans during 2008 presidential campaign,
10
ISAF.
See
International Security Assistance Force
ISI.
See
Pakistani intelligence service
isolationism, American,
90–91
Israel,
193
jihadism,
36
Johnson, Chalmers,
153–54
Johnson, Jeh,
205–6
judicial court, drone program,
212
,
214
,
226
,
227–28
judicial process,
207–8
just-war doctrine or theory,
87–89
,
127–31
,
213–14
Kandahar
field manual on,
95
Karzai government in,
114
Marja campaign and,
93
,
94
,
96
,
113
McChrystal role in,
109–10
Operation Hamkari in,
113–14
Taliban control of,
93–94
Karzai, Hamid, government
Afghan War undermined by,
152
Afghanistan election fraud of,
52
,
77
,
105
CIA, warlord payments, and,
106
,
107
COIN undermined by,
57–58
,
59
,
60
,
75
,
98–99
,
106
,
117
insurgency linked to,
118
in Kandahar,
114
Marja assault and officials from,
102–3
Obama administration relationship with,
52–53
,
77–79
,
100
,
105–6
,
108–10
,
158
,
159
peace negotiations for,
98–99
,
109
,
115–16
,
159
troop surge for correcting,
60
Kazakhstan,
219–20
Keane, Jack,
49–50
Khan, Samar,
173–74
Kilcullen, David,
56
,
64
,
73
,
132–33
,
134
“kill list,”
208
,
225
,
264n48
.
See also
targeting and targeting list
King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
86
Klaidman, Daniel,
173
Koh, Harold Hongju and Koh speech
drone warfare and international law in,
138–39
drone warfare legality from,
136–37
,
138–39
on Obama administration and regime change versus continuity,
139
on Obama-Clinton doctrine,
140
on presidential authority for assassination,
142–43
targeting list legal basis from,
143
Kurtz, Stanley,
84–85
law and legal basis
assassination compared to targeting,
206–7
for assassination of U.S. citizens,
204
,
206–7
,
225
for al-Awlaki, Anwar, drone attack,
137
,
171–73
,
209
,
210
,
214
,
225
,
227
,
229
,
270n26
for drone warfare,
viii–ix
,
136–37
,
138–42
,
171–73
,
175–76
,
208–9
,
211
,
214
,
215–17
,
219
,
224–30
,
242
,
245
OLC and AUMF drone warfare,
viii–ix
,
74
,
172–73
,
175
,
208–9
,
210
,
214–17
,
219
,
224–30
,
242
,
245