Are drones the future of warfare?
The Inquiry
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During the First Gulf War, We See Rapid Allies Success
In the 19 nineties during the first gulf war, Americans would boast that now technology was so precise in terms of targeting that civilians were no longer in danger. By the time of the attacks of nine 11 and the wars in irak and afghanistan, unmanned, remotely controlled aircraft were commonly being deployed to launch missile attacks. So what we have is the ability to loiter, it is called, in space and time, to survey the landscape. And these uncrude aircraft can be operated remotely from places like nevada. It allows the president, such as president a barmer, to take boots off the ground and replace those boots on the ground with a variety of drones,
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