View to a kill : armed drones on the battlefield -- Birth of a predator : the origins of lethal drones -- The rise of targeted killing : Yemen and Palestine -- The cauldron : Iraq 2003-2011 -- The occasional assassin : Bush in Pakistan -- The enemy without : Western citizens killed by drones -- Obama's obsession : "AfPak" -- Game face on : the intimacy of remote killing -- An absence of transparency : Yemen and Somalia -- The long road home : Afghanistan and Pakistan -- The inconstant value of a civilian life -- Countermeasures and critiques -- Appendix: Reports of Westerners killed in US targeted strikes, September 2001 to December 2014.
