The Legality and Morality of Drone Strikes in American Foreign Policy - A forum sponsored by Amnesty Int'l and Milton

On Tuesday, January 26th, 2016, from 7pm to 9pm, the Milton High School chapter of Amnesty International and Milton for Peace will present a forum on the Legality and Morality of Drone Strikes in American Foreign Policy at the Milton High School Auditorium, 25 Gile Road, Milton.

The principle speakers at the forum will be Andrew Bacevich and Kade Crockford.
Andrew J. Bacevich, Sr., Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), is an American historian specializing in international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, and American diplomatic and military history. He is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University and former director of Boston University’s Center for International Relations (1998-2005). His most recent works include “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War “ (2011), “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country” (2013) and, upcoming, “America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History” (2016).

Kade Crockford is the director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’ Technology for Liberty project, where she writes and edits the Privacy Matters blog, available at privacysos.org/blog. The Technology for Liberty project aims to reform obsolete law at the intersection of privacy and technology, as well as marshal developing technologies to serve civil liberties and individual freedom.

“Every day brings fresh reports of our use of drones to suppress terrorists, usually in the Middle East, and there is an ongoing debate among thoughtful people about the morality of this weapon, ” says Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight Jr.

Are these weapons sinister, antiseptic murder machines, or are they a method of conducting war with fewer casualties for their users and fewer innocents killed with their intended victims? Are they weapons of war like any other, or do they represent a new and illegal form of warfare?

Please come to this forum to hear stimulating discussion of these and other aspects of drone use.