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Liberals raised a ruckus over Bush’s abuses. Let’s hold this president to the same standard.

The new trajectory of US warfare.

Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.

How US counterterrorism operations ignited an Islamist uprising.

The Pentagon’s Afghan basing plans for prisons, drones and black ops.

With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

How drones, special operations forces and the US Navy plan to end national sovereignty as we know it.

What seventy downed drones reveal about the new American way of war.

Governments are ramping up investment in cyberweaponry as well as cybersecurity, opening a dark new frontier.

Welcome to the Drone Empire, in which the president's executioners can kill without legal restraint.