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US Army considers replacing thousands of troops with robots
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^
| 6:14PM GMT 21 Jan 2014
| Ben Farmer
Posted on 01/21/2014 12:56:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
The US Army is considering replacing thousands of soldiers with robots as it deals with sweeping troop cuts.
A senior American officer has said he is considering shrinking the size of the Armys brigade combat teams by a quarter and replacing the lost troops with robots and remote-controlled vehicles.
The American military is still far from fielding armies of Terminator-type robotic killers, though. Ideas under discussion instead include proposals to see manned trucks and transporters replaced by supply trains of robot vehicles.
Generals are studying proposals as the US Army is to slim down from 540,000 to about 490,000 soldiers by the end of next year. Some reports suggest it could dip below 450,000 by the end of the decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: control; google; militaryrobots; obama; robots; robotsoldiers; transhumamism; usarmy
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:07:55 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: Olog-hai
Just wait until someone hacks the system and hijacks a few of ‘em....
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:08:51 PM PST
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
Comment #24 Removed by Moderator
To: Olog-hai
How many of them will be female or gay robots?
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:08:59 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: 12th_Monkey
Electromagnetic pulse. We would forfeit.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:10:10 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: Olog-hai
I can see the courts bogged down with equal rights for computers and machines. They can “think” and act on their own so they are also “Human”?
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:12:01 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: a fool in paradise
. . . or transgender?
Gotta broach the subject of robot chaplains too, and the weddings thereof, to follow up.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:12:09 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama’s agenda has been to diminish US military power. He opposed new weapon development. He wants to take us to a ZERO nuclear capacity, he has taken a nuclear response to any attack just about off the table, he has toured the Russians through our defense systems.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:12:51 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
To: UCANSEE2
Someone will define them as slaves.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:13:07 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Black Agnes
Troops to be replaced: Conservative.
Won’t have a home in New York, won’t have a home in the military.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:15:33 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
Comment #32 Removed by Moderator
To: Olog-hai
News from the future:
US Army considering replacing thousands of robots with soldiers.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:15:52 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Alex Murphy
I’d buy that for a dollar!
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:15:55 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Little Ray
I know what I would hack it to do.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:16:59 PM PST
by
funfan
To: Olog-hai
Someone will define them as slaves. Bit of trivia: "Robot" is Czech for "slave". Karel Capek used the term in 1921 in his play "R.U.R." - "Rossum's Universal Robots".
To: 12th_Monkey
keep in mind everything is hackable. So this is just a peachy keen idea The young minds are going to be on the outside looking into the military-robot complex.
They'll be able to bypass Directive 4 and whatever other Directives the King has implemented to protect himself.
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:17:51 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: Secret Agent Man
So you have robot guards along the US/Mexican border. How do you tell the good guy from the bad guy??
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:20:55 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Sacajaweau
And we’ll have robotic JAGs to indict and prosecute them for supposed war crimes against civilians..
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posted on
01/21/2014 1:21:28 PM PST
by
ken5050
(This space available cheap...)
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