{"product_id":"9781626810006","title":"The Permanent War: Rise of the Drones","description":"The Pulitzer Prize-nominated examination of the United States drone campaign, and U.S. counterterrorism policies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn January 30, 2013, President Barack Obama acknowledged publicly what most Americans already knew: The U.S. government was operating a covert drone   campaign in Pakistan. Even as Obama maintained policy was for judicious actions only, his own administration was drawing up secret plans to institutionalize targeted killings in U.S. counter-terrorism policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scope of those plans remained hidden until The Washington Post published a three-part series as reporters Craig Whitlock, Greg Miller, Karen DeYoung, and Julie Tate explored how the use of drones moved from a temporary means to kill terrorists to a permanent weapon of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollected together for the first time, ?THE PERMANENT WAR is the result of a year of investigative reporting on the who, what, and how behind the targeted killing policies that will from the core of American counter-terrorism efforts for years to come. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Diversion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134673862896,"sku":"9781626810006","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781626810006_p0.jpg?v=1769905137","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781626810006","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}