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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I. Introduction -- II. Land of freedom or land of surveillance? Right to privacy in the U.S. after 9/11 -- Privacy and surveillance -- What is the right to privacy -- Rights of the government vs. rights of the governed -- Surveillance -- Historical development of surveillance legislation -- Legal context of the current surveillance issues -- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- United States Patriot Act -- Section 218 -- PRISM and upstream acquisition of Internet communications -- Bulk collection of telephony metadata program -- Challenges of Pandora's Box -- Pendulum effect: back to land of freedom -- Exploitation of the collected data -- III. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in U.S. National Security Policy: New Face of War on Terror -- Unmanned aerial vehicles -- Definitions -- History -- Unmanned aircraft in the military -- Significant manufacturers -- Cost-efficiency -- Limitations to the use of UAVs in the war on terror -- Legal issues -- Collateral damage -- Principles of foreign policy -- Media coverage -- Public opinion -- Public polls -- Technical, tactical, and operational challenges -- UAVs in the war on terror -- Somalia -- Yemen -- Afghanistan -- Pakistan -- Iraq -- Revolution in military affairs -- Theoretical concepts, definitions, schools -- Warrior ethos and just war -- IV. Conclusion -- V. Bibliography.

This article is about the war on terror as an actual war and as police work — and then as something in between these two. The in-between space, where special forces operate, is critically important. We don't have clear standards that apply to it, and we need to begin to think about what those standards might look like.