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Beast in the Machine

By Col. George Dougherty

The first wave of the robotic revolution is underway: smart, precision-guided weapons are proliferating into every corner of war. The big cruise missiles and laser-guided smart bombs that revolutionized air campaigns in operation Desert Storm and thereafter were only a prelude. Today, precision is rapidly migrating to smaller, cheaper, and more plentiful classes of weapons and may soon be practically universal. The idea of “one shot, one kill” will become the standard for almost every class of weapon, large and small. By understanding the consequences of universal precision, we can see how this first wave of the robotic revolution will cause all the changes that follow.