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The reality is that other countries are preparing for Ender's Game style warfare with drones, robotics, and digital sabotage so the U.S. needs to keep pace. Thi
by mrbluecoat 1y ago
The reality is that other countries are preparing for Ender's Game style warfare with drones, robotics, and digital sabotage so the U.S. needs to keep pace. This announcement doesn't surprise me at all.
- absurdo 1y agoSame. I encourage this, in fact.
- mindslight 1y agoKeeping pace by helping with other countries' sabotage efforts? If these actions actually ended up benefiting the country rather than being yet another nepotism based snipe hunt for woke, that would be a pleasant surprise.
- esseph 1y agoI have read your 2nd sentence several times but don't understand it. Can you explain?
- mindslight 1y agoTrump's usual approach is to remove or sideline career civil servants in favor of political apparatchiks whose only real goal is to demand obedience, under the banner of fighting the bogeyman of woke. I'm open to possibility that these appointments are different and might actually do some good, but I'm not holding my breath.
- esseph 1y agoThank you. It was the way you used "woke" there that threw me off, but I get it now.
- ausbah 1y agonot sure why ender’s game needs a reference when #1 & #3 have been around for 10-15+ years. i sort of remain doubtful that robotics will play as large of a role with how large much less of a role that infantry has played in modern warfare (think of exoskeletons, robotic carriers, terminator style killing machines)
- iLoveOncall 1y agoHave you not followed the war in Ukraine at all? It's all about drones.
- esseph 1y agoWhat exactly do you call modern warfare, because I've been "involved in warfare" pretty recently, and without a lot of infantry nothing really happens.
- timewizard 1y ago> so the U.S. needs to keep pace. Yea! We can't fall behind as the worlds leading weapons manufacturer. It's important that we tap even Silicon Valley to continue producing weapons of war and death. > This announcement doesn't surprise me at all. Our burgeoning legacy hasn't surprised me since the 90s.
- wiseowise 1y ago> It's important that we tap even Silicon Valley to continue producing weapons of war and death. What else do you propose? NATO, NATO aligned, Ukraine, Taiwan, and Axis of Evil take each other’s hands and start singing Kumbaya?
- aquariusDue 1y agoDarnedest thing about group relations no matter the size just one bad apple is enough to ignite the powder keg even if most of the keg agrees to keep the peace, so the old adage remains true and will remain true probably: Si vis pacem, 9mm rimless.
- timewizard 1y agoYou can't destroy liberty to create peace.
- wiseowise 1y ago> Si vis pacem, 9mm rimless. Amen.
- timewizard 1y agoSo unless we recruit Silicon Valley CEOs into the military these nations will suddenly have to find peace through extraordinary means or face sudden death? Are you familiar with brainwashing?
- wiseowise 1y ago> So unless we recruit Silicon Valley CEOs into the military these nations will suddenly have to find peace through extraordinary means or face sudden death? Your words, not mine.
- wbl 1y agoLook up everything from Assault Breaker we didn't develop because the funding ran out. Drones guiding artillery? Been there done that. Digital sabotage? Little thing called Stuxnet comes to mind.
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoIf I was in charge of preparing for drone war, tech company execs are the last people I'd hire. (With one or two exceptions.)