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Targeted Killing: Accountability and Oversight via a Drone Accountability Regime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2015
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- Symposium: Toward a Drone Accountability Regime
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3 In the United States this role is called the JTAC: Joint Tactical Air Controller or Joint Terminal Attack Controller.
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5 Ibid., p. 27.
6 Individual referred to only as Fire Control Officer, “World at One,” BBC Radio 4, January 4, 2013.
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