Fighting umpteen wars around the world, the US special forces (SOCOM) is forever offering “urgent operational needs statements” for its various weapons. This newest one is a real eye-opener, as SOCOM is seeking 325 more Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems (LMAMS).
LMAMS are not actually missiles so much as single-use drones, designed to be small, fast, and carry large explosive payloads. The drones are created with an eye toward assassination attacks against “high-value targets,” with US company AeroVironment, and some Israeli companies manufacturing various similar models.
That SOCOM is open to using mini-drones on “kamikaze” missions to assassinate people isn’t the big story here, but rather that they believe they “urgently” need another 325 of them, as AeroVironment had very recently delivered 350 such drones to them already.
This suggests that SOCOM has either already burned through 350 assassination drones in a disturbingly short time, or they plan on assassinating so many people in the near future that they don’t think what they have left is enough to cover it until they could order more through conventional channels. Either is a concerning sign, as the US has a questionable history of selecting targets for drone killings.
America the Pitiful.
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What a lawless gangster state the US has become. It’s a criminal enterprise. I don’t think even Hitler spoke so openly about killing other leaders. It’s like the St Valentines Day Massacre is okay now, it’s no big deal, we can do it.
Not surprisingly the first use of such drones were makeshift ones deployed by the DAESH.
The war hawks have failed in their global wars on terror because of imperial overreach. They have been forced to fight these wars with a volunteer armed forces having private contractors to take up the slack. There’s just not enough cannon fodder to complete their myriad missions on so many fronts, since Richard Nixon got rid of the draft, hence, their reliance on drones initiated by the Boy Emperor and then embraced by Obomber like a long lost lover. So it makes sense from their perspective, they would further refined this tactic with miniaturized drones. But even this tactic will fail. The problem is when you’re a hammer, all you see out there are nails. The late Chalmers Johnson predicted in his blowback trilogy there would be an endgame phrase for the empire.
I remember several years ago watching a documentary on US tv regarding the wartime assassination of Admiral Yamamoto. The documentary reported that many within the US government and military agonized over the ethical implications of such an assassination even during a declared war. My, how we have advanced!
Speaking of mini drones and assassinations, don’t neglect to ask yourself why China, Russia, The U.S., Britain, and France, along with the remainder of the 15 member Security Council, has demanded that Iran disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon.