More Solipsism on Drones

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall . . . , Contentions, September 26, 2011. "But what comes through most clearly in Finn’s article is that the issues raising concern about military robotics are ethical and legal, not strategic. Unfortunately, the current emphasis on drones – both from enthusiasts and skeptics -- repeats the fallacy that Fred Kagan addressed half a decade ago: the way that the U.S. focus on military transformation in the 1990s tended to convert war into “killing people and blowing things up,” at the expense of defining and achieving political objectives that can be advanced with the use of force."