Eighteen thousand other people would be killed by these V-2’s in less than six months. And countless others, like the young woman were left severely wounded in both body and mind for a life time.
Years later on, as she tearfully shared this story with her only son, my mother whispered that in modern warfare, there was nowhere to run, nor anywhere to hide. In those years of my childhood, she was speaking in terms of massive nuclear weapons and their destructive capabilities.
Today, the technology of terror is drones. Narrower in scope, but more focused in dealing out death and destruction. And is seems as drone technology has vastly improved and played out in the past few years from the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, to the Ukraine-Russia war, and most recently in Israel, my mother’s resigned statement is sadly now truer than ever before.
Killing As A Video Game
Today’s drones are long range, long dwell, and are moving from human directed targeting to pre-programmed targeting. The technology is cheap, easily produced, and easily used. All of which means it is not going away. And it will continue to spread in use and targeted lethality.
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