A review by stevenk
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program by The Staff of the Intercept, Jeremy Scahill

3.0

This book was a compilation of reports from the online magazine The Intercept regarding the US government's drone strike programs and other methods of killing or capturing treats to the US in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Utilizing classified documents and confidential sources these authors looked into different aspects of the counter terrorism programs. The turf wars between the military and CIA and the perception of the programs versus the reality was interesting, for example while President Obama has lowered the standards for identifying a valid target, greatly ramped up the strikes and resulting deaths of unintended targets, the support of these programs by democrats has increased from the time of President Bush, when the standards were higher and the resulting strikes much fewer. Reading this book felt a little disjointed but I think that was only a result of the different reports/stories/authors being put together in one cover as a single book. I received a free ARC of this book through Goodreads First Reads Giveaways.