The Kill Chain
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The Kill Chain
THE RETURN OF THE KING
OWNERSHIP, POSSESSION, AND CONTROL
Barack Obama came to see it as an alternative to the messy, costly wars that topple governments and require years of American occupation. In the words of John Brennan, one of President Obama’s closest advisers whom Obama eventually tapped to run the CIA, instead of the “hammer” America now relies on the “scalpel.”