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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Nr.10

Het spiegelbeeld van deze telegeleide bom bestuurd door operators in
een controlekamer is, aan het andere einde van het spectrum,
de bom gedragen door een zelfmoordcommando.

De zelfmoordenaar gaat zo mogelijk zelfs nog effectief te werk en is
nog moeilijk te counteren.

(...) At present the "balance" between suicide-targeting and drone-targeting is more or less equal. In 2007-08, suicide-bombing was more prominent but armed-drones have caught up (see Michael Hastings, "The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret", Rolling Stone, 12 April 2012). The conflict is moving from expeditionary warfare, with tens of thousands of "boots on the ground", towards the "remote control" of threats using

• armed-drones
• special forces
• privatised military contractors
• (and possibly even) "Prompt Global Strike" with conventionally-armed ballistic-missiles

Armed-drones are likely to be central to this, with much more research, development, production, deployment and use still to come (see "America's global shift: drone wars, base politics", 3 May 2012).

Then comes the blowback.

(...) armed-drones from non-state actors will be a feature of asymmetrical, transnational war very soon (see An asymmetrical drone war", 19 August 2010).

(...) What military planners and policy-formers in the west realise least of all is that while the results of drone-warfare rarely make the western media in any depth, they are extensively reported on regional and satellite TV stations across the middle east and into Asia. Even more pertinent is the pervasive coverage of drone-attacks on the worldwide jihadist social media. Moreover, the graphic images of death and suffering on both these kinds of outlets are far grimmer than anything seen in the west (see "Every casualty: the human face of war", 15 September 2011).

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Then comes the blowback.

(...) armed-drones from non-state actors will be a feature of asymmetrical, transnational war very soon (see An asymmetrical drone war", 19 August 2010).