Post by thomasallencummins on Jun 30, 2008 13:28:29 GMT -5
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A report issued last March by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency laid out a road map for the next 25 years for the Pentagon's war bots, including goals like removing soldiers from a third of the Army's operational ground vehicles by 2015. For air vehicles, those goals are even more ambitious: One-third of the military's air-based strike force will be unmanned by 2010, according to the DARPA report. "The age of the unmanned military is upon us," says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute.
While the idea of removing live soldiers from harms way in the course of a military action is certainly laudable I wonder what would happen if a 100% automated military's control was severed, intercepted or worse yet, re directed by an enemy that has discovered a weakness in the protection of the basic command and control transmissions. The horror of watching helplessly while our own military might is sent to destroy us is a nightmare I'd prefer to avoid. If we could be assured of the infallibility of the technology...
A report issued last March by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency laid out a road map for the next 25 years for the Pentagon's war bots, including goals like removing soldiers from a third of the Army's operational ground vehicles by 2015. For air vehicles, those goals are even more ambitious: One-third of the military's air-based strike force will be unmanned by 2010, according to the DARPA report. "The age of the unmanned military is upon us," says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute.
While the idea of removing live soldiers from harms way in the course of a military action is certainly laudable I wonder what would happen if a 100% automated military's control was severed, intercepted or worse yet, re directed by an enemy that has discovered a weakness in the protection of the basic command and control transmissions. The horror of watching helplessly while our own military might is sent to destroy us is a nightmare I'd prefer to avoid. If we could be assured of the infallibility of the technology...
