Thread: So now we can rocket-attack pakistani villages without asking the CIA to do it
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Unread 17 Jan 2006, 16:25   #23
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Re: So now we can rocket-attack pakistani villages without asking the CIA to do it
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Presumably, one of the restrictions on the use of military force is the fear that your side will face casualties. Both from a military perspective, and PR perspective. So there were additional protests against the war when the 2,000th US death was announced, for instance.

If there is a new weapon which can somehow reduce the amount of (possible) deaths on your side, it might make military planners more reckless, or simply more willing to use force I'm not sure. Certainly, I would be more likely to get involved in a street fight if I had a device which could guarantee I wouldn't/couldn't die.
As has been mentioned, all the recent wars involving the UK and the US took place in an environment of total air supremacy, and it's quite possible (given, for example, the US military's recent supplies problems) that the risk of the manpower is not the significant factor, given that, for example, the only significant loss of airmen was quite recently, when the plane was flying abnormally low.
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