The Drone Paradigm

By Frederick Harrison

The advent of missile-equipped Unmanned Air Vehicles or drones in the U.S. arsenal is revolutionizing counterinsurgency warfare, no more so than in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan where Taliban and other extremist combatants had long considered themselves invulnerable. The greater strike capability and opportunity created by Predator drones and their Hellfire missiles, however, radically increase the importance of the timely tactical intelligence needed to effectively target them and to minimize the potential for collateral damage and casualties embarrassing to the United States both at home and abroad. The Drone Paradigm brings into focus the often highly personal operating relationships among the diverse organizations involved, CIA's operatives always in the middle. As in the author's earlier novels, the action shifts rapidly from Washington to Paris to Islamabad to Dushanbe, Kabul, the hinterlands of Afghanistan, and back again; characters range from the insurgent on-the-street to the President of the United States, all against a real world background that will absorb the reader's interest and concentration. The Drone Paradigm is Frederick Harrison's fifth entry in his Intelligence Community series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1427653569
• ISBN13: 9781427653567
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Frederick Harrison Enterprises
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.