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Remote Control

December 14th, 2011 | 1 Comment

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The downed drone in Iran is one of those godsends to cartoonists–you can do so much with it. Our increasing reliance on remotely-controlled unmanned weapons has its plusses and minuses. Fewer troops are put in harm’s way, but at the same time it’s much too easy to destroy harmless things and kill innocent civilians and [...]

Bird Hunt

April 7th, 2009 | Leave a comment

Good luck to Defense Secretary Gates. He has announced an ambitious program of modernization for the military, which includes rethinking strategy for fighting asymmetrical warfare and finally killing off Cold War era weapons programs. He is not the first Defense Secretary to attempt the elimination of wasteful programs that no longer meet strategic needs. Congress, [...]