Originally posted at TomDispatch. When it comes to war, increasingly autonomous drones are now, it seems, the name of the game. Only the other day, in - Michael Klare for Antiwar.com Original
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With swarms of such devices battling other swarms, the risk of catastrophic defeat will loom ever larger, making the temptation to employ nuclear weapons that much harder to resist.