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DeM Banter: ...and so it goes...."Orwellian gnats" will soon be visiting you and your family... I know it sounds far-fetched and as if I am one of those "black helicopter" types....really I am not. Just an individual that is trying to visualize where this will end up and what will the "industry" look like in …
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DeM Banter: Interesting piece...albeit a tad old...but if anything recent events might make the article even more telling...thoughts? Wondering Where The Lions Are (WWTLA)? aljazeera.com / view original / October 12th, 2012 Americans lived in a "victory culture" for much of the 20th century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism - think of …
Continue reading "Overwrought Empire: The discrediting of US military power by Tom Engelhardt"
DeM Banter... well, I bet they don't have sequestration! BANG! ForeignPolicy.com December 20, 2012 People's Power Although the Pentagon has routinely dismissed some of China's very publicly touted military advances as being decades behind the United States, they are still significant. Just because someone gets a new piece of tech later than you doesn't mean …
Continue reading "Eight ways China’s military is catching up to the United States: By John Reed"
DeM Banter: Nice thought piece...stuff we have been yelling about here for quite some time, nice to see we are not totally off our rockers. View Original / Strategy & Policy WASHINGTON: Where's the strategic beef? That's what Andrew Krepinevich wants to know. "When the administration came out with its strategic guidance [in] January, I thought the guidance made a lot …
DeM Banter: will need to get out and see the movie this week, I have some personal baggage with the way we have marched out many of these "assets"...but....??? Any thoughts on strategic direction in terms of the war? Newsweek December 24, 2012 Zero Dark Thirty spotlights America’s finest hour in the battle against al …
Continue reading "Will Obama End The War On Terror? By Daniel Klaidman"
TheAtlantic.com December 14, 2012 DeM Banter: what could possibly go wrong? You know this is coming...and think of all the money we could save is pay, benefits, training, now, roll in some of the culture issues mentioned below, and wow...brilliant! Time to invest in some cyberwarfare thingamabobs. .... Weapons systems that fire autonomously are the …
Continue reading "When The U.S. Shoots, A Human Should Be Pulling The Trigger By Conor Friedersdorf"
DeM Banter: really at some point I will let this go...probably wont happen today though... huffingtonpost.com / Nov 28th 2012 WASHINGTON -- The drone wars are here. While President Obama ponders new legal and moral guidelines to govern America's growing use of armed robot aircraft, the world outside the White House is engaged in a …
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DeM Banter: LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Even if Iran is bluffing, I am sure there is someone out there willing to assist in their effort...and I ponder if they are looking for a stealth deliver system for some of their new toys? Just a thought...oh and note: they are "exporting its domestically manufactured drones to …
Continue reading "Iran Says It Can Make Copy Of Captured CIA Drone By Ali Akbar Dareini"
DeM Banter: drones as pirate hunters for the Royal Navy...interestinger and interestinger.... December 4th 2012 Plans to deploy drones at sea might be ready early next year but some of the proposals will probably be kept secret, the Government has said. The aircraft, which can stay airborne for much longer than planes and fly almost …
Continue reading "British drones may strike pirate boats by Telegraph, telegraph.co.uk"
DeM Banter: Interesting comments from our allies in the UK. It is curious that more people aren't talking about this... I just keep pondering the next 5-10 years, proliferation, cyberwar, and what things will look like. This genie is NOT going back in the bottle... Financial Times December 11, 2012 Pg. 9 What is worse? …
Continue reading "America’s Covert Drone War Is Out Of Control By Gideon Rachman"
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