The Decision to Assassinate

Working a targeted-killing decision through a formal ethical framework, in a scenario where roughly 200,000 have already died and WMD use is in play.

A teaching-scenario memorandum — the target and country are hypothetical — that applies a structured intelligence-ethics framework to the hardest available case: whether to assassinate the leader of a state whose civil war has killed roughly 200,000 people and where weapons of mass destruction are in use.