Abstract
AMERICA’S EMPLOYMENT OF WEAPONIZED unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as “drones,” to kill alleged terrorists in Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas (FATA) fuels sustained controversy in Pakistan. Pakistani outrage has steadily deepened since 2008, when the United States increased the frequency of the strikes. The increasing use of “signature strikes” has been particularly controversial in (and beyond) Pakistan, because such strikes are targeted at “men believed to be militants associated with terrorist groups, but whose identities aren’t always known.” Whereas personality strikes require the operator to
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