Cross-Border Targeted Killings: "Lawful but Awful"?
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2014

Since September 11, the United States has waged two very open wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These two wars have killed nearly 7,000 U.S. military personnel and left some 50,000 American troops wounded; they have also left an unknown number of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers and civilians dead or wounded. But alongside these two costly and visible wars, the United States has also been waging what amounts to a third war. This third war is a secret war, waged mostly by drone strikes, though it has also i