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Computers and the military                      

Computers have clearly had an               This discussion was all inspired
effect on modern warfare, but               by a section of a book by Jerry 
I don't entirely understand                 Mander called "In The Absence Of
the sense of alarm that Mander              The Sacred: The Failure Of      
approaches this with,                       Technology And The Survival Of 
from what little I know about               The Indian Nations".            
it, most of the clearly                     Distributed by Sierra Club      
stupid mistakes have been                   Books. (Richard Balcon quoted a 
avoided, for example we don't               big chunk of Chapter 3 on       
use anything like "launch on                sfraves in Oct, and it should be
warning", and we've thus far                archived at hyperreal.com)      
insisted on keeping human                                                   
beings in the loop on                                October of *what year*?
friend-or-foe identification                         I don't think the archives are 
(the only reason jet fighters                        out there any more.    
still have pilots is because                         My guess, 1993 (maybe 94?).
machines can't recognize the   
enemy with any reliability).   
                               
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