Future: US Electronic, Troop-less Wars

[Jan Klimkowski]

A prescient article. Ed - thanks for posting.

Those who pull the gray trigger to fire are located in Nevada, Kandahar, or Pakistan.[6] As Philip Alston points out, “Young military personnel raised on a diet of video games now kill real people remotely using joysticks. Far removed from the human consequences of their actions, how will this generation of fighters value the right to life?”[7] In early 2010, the U.S. Air Force had more drone operators in training than fighter and bomber pilots.[8]

The killers no longer have to face those they kill.

MSM will be reliant on imagery provided by the military - either "cockpit video" which will of course be heavily censored, or "embedded" reporters who go where the military tells them to and reports what they are allowed by the military to see.

The drones provide the critical and the weak link: critical insofar as they represent the ultimate American-style war where only the “Others” (opponents and civilians) die but weak insofar as this type of warfare only works against an opponent without any anti-drone/aircraft capability. In other words, this type of technological warfare can only be carried out upon weak opponents lacking independent industrial capacities (not against China, Russia, and India).

Yes.

I wonder who the military-industrial complex is selling anti-drone technology to?