Photo: U.S. Air ForcePentagon: Drones Can Stop the Next Darfur -- The Danger Room
When a Predator flies above a conflict-ridden area, it’s usually taking pictures of people doing very bad things. Sometimes, it’s about to use its missiles to kill someone. But Pentagon officials want to put the drones to work on a very different job — saving lives.
The new initiative aims to retask the military’s massive fleet of overhead-surveillance gear — drones, blimps, spy planes, satellites — to place watchful eyes on the perpetrators of mass atrocities. And that’s just the beginning. Jammers might stop the radio transmissions of aspiring genocidaires. Text and social media could alert the American forces about civilians at risk of being slaughtered.
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My Comment: It appears that the Pentagon is adopting the Amnesty International approach to covering mass murder and genocide. Put the spotlight on the murderers, and by doing so this will inhibit those who conduct mass murder.
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