Military analysts Chuck Spinney reviews Andrew Cockburn's Kill Chain. Technological warfare is not all that it's cracked up to be.
The Folly of Machine Warfare
Franklin C. Spinney, former Pentagon military analyst
Franklin C. Spinney, former Pentagon military analyst
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"(3) That technology provides the wherewithal to attack and destroy these vital nodes or links with precision strikes and thereby administer a mortal wound to the adversary."
Nobody there thinks that way... these strikes simply keep the enemy occupied in their local region and less able to plan attacks on the US homeland or other external US interests...
and btw Spinney's whole anti-Pentagon schtick is based on a view that "we're out of money!" in principle...
Why else would one complain so vehemently about a "cost overrun"? Who cares?
Here:
"Trusted Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Over The Weekend: Death to America"
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/03/23/iranian-president-over-the-weekend-death-to-america-n1974934
If we had competent leadership in the US, no one in Iran would have electricity the next morning.... start with the transmission systems ...
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