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Drone Wars (2021)

Drone Wars (2021)

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 Unseen, they stalk their targets from thousands of feet in the air. Operators are piloting them from military bases halfway across the world. At any moment, they could launch a strike that comes without warning. The attack drone was supposed to be a symbol of the era of precision warfare — a way to wage wars with fewer casualties on both sides. It's a technology that's been honed since it was first dreamed up during World War 1. But are drones actually precise enough? Do drones desensitize us to the casualties of civilians caught between us and our enemies? In this episode, we will explore the past, present and future of drone warfare.

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I really dislike how "news reports" are now dramatic productions. Stirring music, battle sound effects that emote fear. These are just a few of the media constructions involved in this one-hour story of how drone attacks have progressed over the years since the Wright brothers. Tellingly, the report only addresses the USA's remotely piloted warcraft, omitting the important advances made by Germany in WWII, and Iran's mass production of exploding drones today. This report has some valuable content, but the intent is clearly to make a dramatic case that US drone usage is mis-guided, if not immoral. This assertion is off-center, proven with simply one example: Drone battles by the USA are an attempt to minimize deaths of non-combatants through remotely guided methods. Conversely, the attack on the US by Al- Qaeda on 9-11 attempted to do the opposite: Maximize non-combatant deaths through directly guided methods; i.e., hijacked commercial airliners. I just don't buy the argument that drone technology developments by the US is immoral 9nnligjt of the threat they are addressing.

However, there is a point to make here that was essentially missed by the performers/reporters, yet it supports their case. The main problem with remotely-guided weapons has always been a lack of accurate information in order to carry out the mission. The drone attack organization fills in gaps in their intelligence information by assuming their threat assumption is correct, and accepts any any information that supports that assumption. There is no substitute for a set of human eyes in observation in the theater of operations. THIS flaw is the main conflict in drone technology--the technology is excellent, but the human element needs improvement. Policies on how to use such technology in conflict are either secret or incompletely formed. This story does attempt in a way to address that important issue, but then falls back on simply again stating that suffering in another country means that the technology is bad.

emotional Dramatization of news

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