Bullets with names
Subtitle: the deadly dilemma
By: by Roger G. Herbert, Jr
Contributors: Teti, Frank M.
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from the National Technical Information Service
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Description: The United States, by executive order, has unilaterally forfeited assassination as an instrument of foreign policy. Some Americans now believe that a declared prohibition unreasonably limits U.S. capability to counter the national security threats posed by-terrorists, revolutionaries and Third World crusaders. This thesis is an examination of the national security policy dilemma which political assassination presents. Circumstances are conceivable in which utilitarian calculations would endorse assassination as the most moral application of deadly force. Yet the draconian practice of assassination as an instrument of American foreign policy seems to contradict democratic ideals. This thesis details both arguments and draws two major conclusions. First, assassination cannot support long-term U.S. policy goals or warfighting efforts. Ultimately, such methods could weaken America's global position. Second, while assassination has no place in the U.S. warfighting arsenal, the assassination ban itself has become dysfunctional and requires reevaluation. assassination; political assassination; assassination and Fidel Castro; assassination and Patrice Lumumba; Operation Vengeance; Phoenix Program; Executive Order Number 11905; Executive Order 12333.
Notes: Thesis advisor, Frank M. Teti.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1992.

Bibliography: p. 139-147.

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