Tuesday, February 09, 2016

This New Tank Drone Could Spell the End for Human Freedom

This New Tank Drone Could Spell the End for Human Freedom | The Daily Sheeple:
After 15 years of fighting the War on Terror, Americans have become thoroughly acquainted with automated warfare.
Drones are no longer a novelty, especially after Obama took office and started deploying them like there was no tomorrow.
However, there is no reason to think that these machines are the end point of automated warfare.
If anything, they are just the beginning.
As technology advances, we can expect to see more robots show up in every active and supporting role the military has to offer.
That of course, will include land based drones.
Despite spending two decades developing land based drones, it’s not the US who is going to break ground in this field, but a Russian state-owned corporation known as Rosoboronexport. 
They’ve just developed the very first tank drone, and they are expected to sell it on the international market in the very near future.
...Make no mistake however, this has far greater implications than airborne drones ever did.
This isn’t just going to be a ground based version of a reaper drone.
It’s going to change the game for warfare, and for human society.
And even if it doesn’t do this right away, it is a first step towards radically changing society, and not for the better.
Here’s why:
The history of human warfare has always been just that. Human warfare. 
There has always been a person somewhere in the loop.
Specifically, there has always been some guy with a gun or a sword or a spear, who is doing the dirty work of someone more powerful than him.
uran-9He is the lowest common denominator of any military.
He is intrinsic.
Even more so than naval or air power.
The infantryman is ultimately the most important contributor to any war, because every tank, plane, missile, and ship is deployed with the intent of helping him gain and hold ground.
The buck always stops with an armed human being.
If we begin to automate land warfare, and start replacing these grunts with machines, it’s going to irrevocably change society.
For most of human history, the rulers have always had to find some way to convince other people to fight in their name.
They’ve done this either by compensation with money, loot, and slaves, or with some kind of ideology.
But what happens when machines take the role of the grunt? 
What happens if the elites no longer have to convince people to fight for them?..."

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