Gardner, Lloyd C.,  1934- <br/><br/>
Killing machine :  the American presidency in the age of drone warfare / 
Lloyd C. Gardner. 
 - xiii, 289 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The dream candidate -- Afghanistan shortchanged -- A tale of two speeches -- On to Maja! -- The War of the Drones -- The meaning of two deaths -- A better war? -- American hubris -- The new normal? 
<br/><br/> With Obama's election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States' leadership role in the world. In this new assessment, historian Lloyd C. Gardner argues that, despite cosmetic changes, Obama has simply built on the expanding power base of presidential power that reaches back across decades and through multiple administrations. The new president ended the "enhanced interrogation" policy of the Bush administration but did not abandon the concept of preemption. Obama withdrew from Iraq but has institutionalized drone warfare -- including the White House's central role in selecting targets. What has come into view, Gardner argues, is the new face of American presidential power: high-tech, secretive, global, and lethal. Killing Machine narrates the drawdown in Iraq, the counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan, the rise of the use of drones, and targeted assassinations from al-Awlaki to Bin Laden -- drawing from the words of key players in these actions as well as their major public critics. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781595589187 159558918X 9781595589439 1595589430 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Perseus Distribution Services, 1094 Flex Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301-5070  SAN 631-760X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013022628 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Obama, Barack, 1961- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>USA President 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>2003-2017 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Executive power--United States.<br/>War and emergency powers--United States.<br/>Drone aircraft--Government policy--United States.<br/>Targeted killing--Government policy--United States.<br/>Afghan War, 2001---Aerial operations.<br/>Iraq War, 2003-2011--Aerial operations.<br/>HISTORY / United States / 21st Century.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership.<br/>Drohne<br/><br/>Executive power.<br/>Military operations, Aerial.<br/>Military policy--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Politics and government.<br/>War and emergency powers.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Military policy--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.<br/>Iraq.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographies.<br/>Biographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JK558  / .G37 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>352.23/5