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Letter: Armchair blowback

Published 29 November 2006

From Trevor Magnusson

You report that the US Department of Defense is looking to robotics to reduce troop losses on its side (28 October, p 24). One contractor says “we are trying… to create a very un-level battlefield”. This commitment to one form of asymmetric warfare can have only one outcome: it will encourage the adversary to embrace two other forms – guerrilla warfare and terrorism.

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Issue no. 2580 published 2 December 2006

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