CIA drones struck Pakistan every four days through 2012 despite its official peace

Evidence

David Kilcullen is certainly no pacifist. This former advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq is today considered to be one of the United States’ most eminent experts in the doctrine of counterinsurgency. In 2009 he, alongside Andrew McDonald Exum, co-signed an op-ed piece in the New York Times calling for a moratorium on drone strikes in Pakistan. Their diagnosis was simple: those operations were dangerously counterproductive for American interests. People were congratulating themselves on short-term tactical successes without seeing that they would pay dearly for them at a strategic level. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 268 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Counterinsurgency expert Kilcullen called for a moratorium on drone strikes in Pakistan. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 268

Related

• Counterinsurgency expert Kilcullen called for a moratorium on drone strikes in Pakistan. (similarity 0.94)
• Drone strikes occur in countries officially at peace, not just war zones. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Counterinsurgency expert Kilcullen called for a moratorium on drone strikes in Pakistan. #corroborates (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 268