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Thursday, June 23, 2011

America: “We’ve carried out more than 200 air strikes into Pakistan using unmanned systems'

sounds like war to me.............from radio free europe........


"News headlines these days are filled with stories about unmanned aerial vehicles and their role in America’s "war on terror." Yet drones are merely the most visible part of a much broader technological revolution that is changing the nature of war – and raising a host of profound ethical and political questions along the way.

Peter Singer is a leading defense expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington and the author of the 2009 book "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century."

He believes that advances in military robotics are bringing us to a watershed moment in the history of warfare. For the past 4,000 years, as Singer puts it, someone who went off to war “went to a place of danger from where you might never come home again.”

“That’s an enduring story of war… until today," he says"................LINK

so if we have all of this tech, can we close up all the overseas military bases and save some money?

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