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MindMover

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Sun Mar 11, 2012, 04:35 PM Mar 2012

Robot wars [View all]

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Source: AlJazerra

Over the past decade, the US military has shifted the way it fights its wars, deploying more unmanned systems in the battlefield than ever before.

Today there are more than 7,000 drones and 12,000 ground robots in use by all branches of the military.

These systems mean less American deaths and also less political risk for the US when it takes acts of lethal force – often outside of official war zones.

But US lethal drone strikes in countries like Pakistan have brought up serious questions about the legal and political implications of using these systems.

Fault Lines looks at how these new weapons of choice are allowing the US to stretch the international laws of war and what it could mean when more and more autonomy is developed for these lethal machines

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2011/12/2011122512243829505.html



You knew it was going to come to this....

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Robot wars [View all] MindMover Mar 2012 OP
ba-dum dum de dum... da-dum dum de dum tech_smythe Mar 2012 #1
Its the IT guys who are the most freaked out. napoleon_in_rags Mar 2012 #2
not breaking news Broderick Mar 2012 #3
This is not breaking news. Also copyright violation OKNancy Mar 2012 #4
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