After learning that the targets of a top-secret drone operation in Kenya to arrest terrorists are plotting a suicide attack, the mission is escalated from "capture" to "kill" by a military commander stationed in the United Kingdom and based there. An eight-year-old girl walks into the kill zone just as American pilot Steve Watts is ready to engage, igniting an international debate that reached the highest levels of US and British government about the moral, political, and personal ramifications of contemporary warfare.
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After learning that the targets of a top-secret drone operation in Kenya to arrest terrorists are plotting a suicide attack, the mission is escalated from "capture" to "kill" by a military commander stationed in the United Kingdom and based there. An eight-year-old girl walks into the kill zone just as American pilot Steve Watts is ready to engage, igniting an international debate that reached the highest levels of US and British government about the moral, political, and personal ramifications of contemporary warfare.
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