Introducing the Military-Robotics Complex
The Washington Post today is heralding what it calls the “new military-robotics complex,” an era in which the US military is increasingly replacing trigger-pullers with kill bots and “cyber-hackers safely ensconced behind their computers, thousands of miles from the battlefront.”
Click here to read more about this brave new world of grenade-size, throwable battle droids.
Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.
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