The Kill/Capture Program

Military has been carrying out a covert program called Kill/Capture in the war-torn country of Afghanistan. Led by a secretive military command called the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the goal of the program is to target and then kill or capture important members of a violent insurgent terrorist group called the Taliban. The Kill/Capture initiative has successfully taken out more than 12,000 militants affiliated with the Taliban. However, the program is offending the Afghan culture, killing

Kill/Capture: How An Aggressive United States Military Initiative May Be Doing More Harm Than Good in Afghanistan The United States Military has been carrying out a covert program called Kill/Capture in the war-torn country of Afghanistan. Led by a secretive military command called the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the goal of the program is to target and then kill or capture important members of a violent insurgent terrorist group called the Taliban. The Kill/Capture initiative has successfully

Watching the play to kill a Mockingbird was a wonderful production that captures the audience attention. A playwright is a person who writes plays for that stage and also they create scripts that tell stories through the words and action of characters. Most of the playwright’s people work alone and some of the time they share the work of creating script with the actors and directors. Courtneay Sander who directed the play To Kill a Mockingbird has been the director of the Theatre department at

Reason #1 (Weakest) : Cheaper Detail #1: America's entire drone program constitutes only one percent of the entire annual military budget. Detail #2: In comparison, the military’s F-35 Joint Strike program alone cost the United States $9.7 billion in the year of 2012. Detail #3: The U.S. manned military attack aircraft cost anywhere from $18,000 to $169,000 per hour to operate, that's 6 to 42 more than attack drones. Reason #2 (Medium):Legal Detail #1: Presidential powers under Article ii of

abilities in this particular counter-terrorism program. He has an overwhelming power as far as tactics and people’s lives. This is because the drone system is completely run through him and his final decisions (Babbin, 2013, Obama’s Drone War). In the academic journal Legal Ethics Is About the Law, Not Morality or Justice: A Reply to Critics, Bradley Wendel (2012) states “Obama Administration have prepared a still-secret memo authorizing the President to kill American citizens abroad without a trial.”

based on insurgent kills is not. It further dehumanizes Iraqis and places an emphasis on killing over other mission objectives. Fourth, COL Steele did not communicate the Rules of Engagement (ROE) very well with his unit. His speeches emphasized his core principles of “be precise; be lethal; be safe,” but that caused his soldiers to believe that COL Steele wanted them to shoot instead of capture potential insurgents. Fifth, at the company headquarters, soldiers had posted a kill board that tracked

What Captures My Attention? We often trust police officers to protect our homes and our loved ones, but what if the officers we trust can actually harm our loved ones? Over the past few years, unjustified shootings, rough treatments, and severe beatings have been on and off on our tv screens and on our phones. We hear various stories especially from minorities about their unforgettable encounters with police officers who hurt and accused them. According to CopCrisis, almost 3,000 Americans have

this year that allows the capture and murder of large sharks. This is done with baited drum lines , it aims to catch and kill Great White sharks, Bull sharks andTiger sharks. All three of these shark species are endangered. Let me introduce you to Premier Colin Barnett the man responsible for the shark cull. This is the man that despite 80% of Australians being opposed to the cull, according to UMR research, got the policy approved and is now the reason for the capture of over 170 sharks on drum

and work on their own. They do surveillance, hunt, identify and kill enemies based on calculations made by the software, not decisions made by humans. They kill from a distance through technological mediation, without the shock of direct confrontation. Boyle (2013) states that drones operate with a reduce view of effectiveness. They kill innocent people including women and children, and drones do not see anybody down there and it kills everybody. But in reality, drone strikes are efficient because

CHAPTER FOUR [Chapter four deals with the paradoxes of casualties, irony of errors, USA’s response to victims, who is accountable for attacks, advantages and disadvantages of drone attacks.] 4.1 Persistence of Civilian Casualties in Military Operations by US officials T hough the actual number of civilian causalities was always high, yet, according to US officials, drone strikes have caused relatively few civilian deaths, and sometimes drones caused no harm at all. Luckily, there were some leaks