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FUTURE WARS
While some might think, the future is already here:
Thousands flee bomb attacks by US drones
AMERICAN drone attacks on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, Pakistani officials claimed after a new attack yesterday killed 13 people.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6036...
There’s $159bn saying – it has barely begun:
Short '06 Lebanon War Stokes Pentagon Debate
A war that ended three years ago and involved not a single U.S. soldier has become the subject of an increasingly heated debate inside the Pentagon, one that could alter how the U.S. military fights in the future.
A 30-page internal Army briefing, prepared for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior Pentagon civilians, recently sought to highlight how the $159 billion Future Combat Systems, a network of ground vehicles and sensors, could have been used to dispatch Hezbollah's forces quickly and with few American casualties.
"Hezbollah relies on low visibility and prepared defenses," one slide in the briefing reads. "FCS counters with sensors and robotics to maneuver out of contact."
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is expected to stake out a firm position in this debate as soon as today, when he announces the 2010 defense budget. That document is expected to cut or sharply curtail weapons systems designed for conventional wars, and to bolster intelligence and surveillance programs designed to help track down shadowy insurgents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2...
In this video, PW Singer asks:
Is it our machines – or it is us, that is wired for war?
Apparently, Hezbollah used 4 different types of drone against Israel (you can be sure that will be getting a mention above)
Unmanned slaughter – already three incidents where we thought we had bin Laden but turned out not to be the case.
P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html#top
Thousands flee bomb attacks by US drones
AMERICAN drone attacks on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, Pakistani officials claimed after a new attack yesterday killed 13 people.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6036...
There’s $159bn saying – it has barely begun:
Short '06 Lebanon War Stokes Pentagon Debate
A war that ended three years ago and involved not a single U.S. soldier has become the subject of an increasingly heated debate inside the Pentagon, one that could alter how the U.S. military fights in the future.
A 30-page internal Army briefing, prepared for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior Pentagon civilians, recently sought to highlight how the $159 billion Future Combat Systems, a network of ground vehicles and sensors, could have been used to dispatch Hezbollah's forces quickly and with few American casualties.
"Hezbollah relies on low visibility and prepared defenses," one slide in the briefing reads. "FCS counters with sensors and robotics to maneuver out of contact."
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is expected to stake out a firm position in this debate as soon as today, when he announces the 2010 defense budget. That document is expected to cut or sharply curtail weapons systems designed for conventional wars, and to bolster intelligence and surveillance programs designed to help track down shadowy insurgents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2...
In this video, PW Singer asks:
Is it our machines – or it is us, that is wired for war?
Apparently, Hezbollah used 4 different types of drone against Israel (you can be sure that will be getting a mention above)
Unmanned slaughter – already three incidents where we thought we had bin Laden but turned out not to be the case.
P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html#top
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Comment by Ayah/Crystal on April 6, 2009 at 12:35pm - It's insane, yet it is true... WWIII has already begun... They just don't say "WWIII" yet... It is already ugly enough, but I don't have any illusion that it will get better anytime soon...
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