Are These The New Weapons That The Pentagon Needs To Confront Today's Threats?

January 9, 2010 a Predator unmanned drone flies a training mission over Victorville, California. (Don Bartletti / MCT)

John Yoo, Chicago Tribune: The new weapons America sorely needs

With threats, bribes, diplomacy and sanctions, American presidents of both parties have sought for 25 years to try to halt, or at least slow, North Korea's quest for a nuclear arsenal — to no avail.

Though the brinkmanship of the last few weeks has subsided, President Donald Trump still faces the prospect of a madman — Kim Jong Un — in control of a nuclear arsenal. What the U.S. and its allies must now do is find options between conventional war, or even nuclear holocaust, on the one hand, and appeasement on the other. The answer could be robotic, cyber and space weapons — if we have the will to deploy them.

Three types of technology hold promise for facing down North Korea and similar threats.

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WNU Editor: I do not know if these are the weapons that the U.S. sorely needs, but what I do know is that the Pentagon is spending a lot of money to develop and build them .... Defense to get historically high share of research budget (MyAJC).