| The United States has outdone the world in military | | | | characters in their regimes. If they are a nation that |
| technology, and perhaps there is no greater example | | | | has oil, they can easily afford modern weaponry |
| of this than the unmanned aerial systems that are now | | | | including UAVs or unmanned aerial vehicles. |
| being used in the modern battlespace. These net | | | | Currently, and we know this occurs all too often, |
| centric system drones are able to seek and destroy, | | | | NGOs bring in food supplies for starving civilians in |
| and they give a vast amount of intelligence to the | | | | various nations. We know from the past experience |
| military. There is no better way to gather information | | | | that guerrillas, and rogue regimes steal the food and |
| than having eyes in the sky; or in this case aerial spies | | | | hijack the shipments, only to sell it back to the very |
| in the sky. | | | | people who were supposed to get it to keep them |
| Of course, whenever one side of a conflict comes up | | | | from starving. Then they take this food and feed |
| with new technology, eventually the other side will | | | | themselves and their militaries or armies very well, and |
| come up with the same technology. And once they do, | | | | sell the remainder of the food to the poor people who |
| the first side now has to deal with defending itself | | | | were supposed to get it for free in the first place. |
| against the very technology they created in the first | | | | Now that they've raised extra cash, they are able to |
| place. But in the meanwhile, I'd like to throw a | | | | afford more weaponry. Not a pretty picture |
| philosophical question out there, one that has come to | | | | considering often they buy machine guns to go and |
| mind recently at a local think tank. | | | | slaughter their own people. When it comes to oil there |
| What happens when we nation-states, for instance in | | | | is a lot more money involved and they use this money |
| Africa get ahold of UAVs? In other words, what | | | | to secure high-tech weapons to do the same thing. |
| happens when they get the technology and start using | | | | Now imagine such a rogue nation, government, or |
| killer drones? We already know there are many | | | | group of guerrillas with aerial killer drones. Not a pretty |
| human rights abuses in African nations, and there are | | | | picture. I hope you will please consider this. |
| plenty of rogue nation-states with questionable | | | | |