US drone doctrine was directly sourced from Israeli targeted assassination practice

Evidence

In 2001, U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld had become convinced that “the techniques used by the Israelis against the Palestinians could quite simply be deployed on a larger scale.” What he had in mind was Israel’s programs of “targeted assassinations,” the existence of which had recently been recognized by the Israeli leadership. As Eyal Weizman explains, the occupied territories had become “the world’s largest laboratory for airborne thanatotactics,” so it was not surprising that they would eventually be exported. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 165

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Weizman’s notion of the occupied territories as a laboratory for airborne thanatotactics — a lineage the reader’s drone-imperialism frame needs. — connects to: Israel formally codified combatant-immunity doctrine first developed in the 1990s; US drone assassination techniques were directly exported from Israeli practice in Palestine; Israel formalized the doctrine that protecting Israeli soldiers outranks enemy civilians. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 437

Related

• US drone assassination techniques were directly exported from Israeli practice in Palestine (similarity 0.96)
• Israel formally codified combatant-immunity doctrine first developed in the 1990s (similarity 0.90)
• Israel formalized the doctrine that protecting Israeli soldiers outranks enemy civilians. (similarity 0.82)