Military Tech Getting Scarier By The Day

Check this quote from this month’s issue of Wired:

“Network-centric wars would be more moral, too. [...] Network-enabled armies kill more of the right people quicker. With fewer civilian casualties, warfare would be more ethical. And as a result, the US could use military might to create free societies without being accused of imperialist arrogance.”

Now, the preceding is a logical argument: targeted warfare would, theoretically, have less unintended consequences (like blowback). Less unintended consequences in warfare may be slightly more ethical, but that’s not a pretext for preemptive war, invasion, and reshaping of governments and societies.

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