U.S.practice on ______ seems to have begun with the efforts of the CIA to kill Fidel Castro and continued into the Vietnam War with plots to assassinate the president of
South Vietnam and with the Phoenix Program,designed to kill Vietcong leaders.

A) warfare
B) anti-terrorism
C) justifiable warfare
D) targeted assassinations

Targeted Assassinations

The premeditated killing of specific individuals, often for political, military, or ideological reasons, usually by governments or their agents.

CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency; a U.S. government agency responsible for foreign intelligence and covert operations.

Fidel Castro

A Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and then President from 1976 to 2008.