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Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts will swarm over the land . . . .
–Exodus 10:12

The New York Times has a fascinating article about how the military is using UAV’s for counterinsurgency patrolling. I’ve long wondered how insurgents could roam with impunity if they were watched from the skies, or how a mechanized force could ever preserve itself under the withering attack of swarms of small UAVs carrying anti-tank bomblets.

This probably leads to a whole “Terminator” debate about the dehumanization of warfare, although on the face of it, war seems less terrible if it involves fewer human beings. Whether that will be the effect, I’m not sure anyone can predict yet.