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SELECTIVE ASSASSINATION AS AN INSTRUMENT OF NATIONAL POLICY
The United States already employs elite troops to engage in special operations. But what happens when these military options fail in situations of vital consequence? Should we take unconventional warfare one step further, using assassination to achieve political and military objectives? Would we be justified in eliminating a single enemy to prevent the widespread death and destruction inherent in modern war? A classic study done by the U.S. government, Selective Assassination as an Instrument of Foreign Policy raises the question of whether the moral laws that have governed civilized nations in the past will be adequate in the face of present and future threats by terrorists and terrorist nations. It concludes that they will not - that the United States must seriously consider using selective assassination as a refinement of the tactics of unconventional warfare in order to permit greater flexibility in the attainment of its military and political goals. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, softcover, 54 pp.
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