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For example, NATO’s central policy is that an attack on one member state will be treated as an attack on all.

We do not know exactly what the policy is because much of it is classified. drone policy.Įxplain President Biden’s new policy on counterterrorism and your thoughts on it. 2) of the first targeted killing with a drone, O’Connell discusses Biden’s new policy, along with the history and future of U.S. With the approaching 20th anniversary (Nov. Department of Defense and chair of the International Law Association’s Committee on the Use of Force. O’Connell is the author of “Forever Air Wars and the Lawful Purpose of Self-Defence,” “The Crisis in Ukraine” and “Seductive Drones: Learning from a Decade of Lethal Operations,” co-author of “Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors” and editor of “What is War?” She has served as a professional military educator for the U.S. Mary Ellen O’Connell, the University of Notre Dame’s Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, is a longtime outspoken critic of drone strikes, calling them a grave violation of international law. However, it allows the president to waive certain requirements of the new policy at his discretion. will limit drone strikes, which have been criticized for killing civilians. The policy focuses on countries that are not conventional war zones, including Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan, but where the United States continues to carry out counterterrorism strikes. The new policy requires the president’s approval before a lethal drone strike or commando raid can be launched. 7, President Joe Biden signed a long-awaited policy tightening the rules for the CIA and Pentagon to conduct drone strikes outside of traditional war zones.