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Saturday, August 4th, 2012

A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away

Author:     ELISABETH BUMILLER
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     29-Jul-12
 Link: A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away
Stephan:   One of the unintended consequences of the neocons involving us in the insane wars of the last 10 years has been to transform the military from the large movement operations of the 20th century to this. High technology asymmetrical warfare is very close to the kind of policing and security oversight that the Virtual Corporate States will require as their power increases, even though it will be exercised through nation states. Normal warfare has too much collateral damage, and it disrupts markets.

HANCOCK FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. — From his computer console here in the Syracuse suburbs, Col. D. Scott Brenton remotely flies a Reaper drone that beams back hundreds of hours of live video of insurgents, his intended targets, going about their daily lives 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Sometimes he and his team watch the same family compound for weeks.

The Reaper is among the drones that pilots at Hancock operate, killing insurgents and protecting American troops overseas.

‘I see mothers with children, I see fathers with children, I see fathers with mothers, I see kids playing soccer,

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