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Report on Process for Determining Targets of Lethal or Capture Operations

Document Date: March 6, 2014
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Agency: DOD
Document Type: Report

This document is a Department of Defense Report on the legal and policy considerations used in determining whether an individual or group can be the subject to a lethal or capture operation conducted by US Armed Forces outside of the US or Afghanistan. This document was released to the ACLU on August 5, 2016. A more redacted version was released previously here

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