ROBOTS & MACHINES FOR THE EMPIRE
THE GEORGE LUCAS NIGHTMARE!
By: peter
Coming very soon to a theater of war near you, your family and your home, will be the machines and robots which will greatly magnify and make more mobile the State's deadly force for deployment against its eternal enemy: the people.
Government Executive Magazine, traditionally pro-federal government, includes an article in its April 15th issue entitled "Future Combat Zone." Staff correspondent George Cahlink begins his article, "Six years ago, the Army decided to stake its future on an untested approach to acquiring futuristic weapons in support of a grand theory about the nature of 21st century warfare. The resulting program, known as Future Combat Systems, has turned out to be the most expensive and complex program procurement effort in Army history. According to current estimates, the service will spend well in excess of $100 billion by 2014 to develop the ?system of systems,' which includes manned and unmanned air and ground vehicles and sensors tied together by a wireless network." [Emphasis mine.]
"Untested approach?" "Futuristic?" "Grand theory?" It doesn't sound very supportive of our nation state's latest high-tech investments consistently touted as absolutely necessary for our defense in an increasingly technologically hostile world.
The Army's Future Combat Systems program was recently examined against the backdrop of totally uncontrolled federal spending, which long ago has left the State's fiscal launching pad roaring skywards both in defiance of gravity and any modicum of budgetary restraints. Tim Weiner in his NY Times article of March 28th offers, "The Army's plan to transform itself into a futuristic high-technology force ...