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A New Kind of War
Americans think of D-Day or the invasion of Iraq when they think of war -- massed fleets, armies and planes, tanks and fortifications. But the National Security types and military brass were clearly talking about something else completely.
This sort of offensive, confusing and strange-sounding to non-tech laypeople and those outside the military, will clearly rely heavily on security technology -- surveillance, wire-taps, electronic ID's from cards to voice and fingerprint scanning, biological warfare and defense, e-mail encryption and interception, satellite photographs, the digital tracing of money, the use of pin-point troops and weaponry to go after small numbers of terrorists located in inaccessible cells in distant countries. Such a conflict raises all sorts of policy questions, from our grasp of different cultures to the nature of religious fundamentalism to changes in traditional ideas about civil liberties, to use of the Net as a communications medium for terrorism, to technologies that might make airplanes and buildings safer. People have suggested more sophisticated X-ray devices to spot weapons and bombs, stronger pilot cabins, buildings less massive and vulnerable than the World Trade Center towers.
Most officials were quick to say the war would like unlike any other, and that drafting vast numbers of people wouldn't be necessary. This war would be fluid, varied, combining weaponry with diplomacy and economic pressure.
The intelligence experts who came out of the cold last week were nearly unanimous in agreeing that old-fashioned spies -- sometimes unsavory humans -- were crucial to get close to terrorist "cells" but also that new forms of communications -- e-mail, cell, the transmission of encrypted files -- required new laws and better technologies to monitor them, since they were terrorist tools. Also needed, they said, are computer programs to better track the movement of money.
Is such a war possible? Technologically feasible? Can encrypted terrorist communications really be followed online? Is it possible to trace money so precisely by digital means? To what degree can civil liberties or privacy be protected in this context? Is there technology that can spot a knife in a briefcase or hidden in a human body? How close can satellite surveillance take us to small terrorist hideouts in urban or rural areas? Is the idea of the mobile, tech-equipped soldier feasible? What weapons would he or she carry?
Over the last few years, I've gotten e-mail from academics, defense researchers, satellite trackers, government cryptographers about various issues relating to technology. It would be interesting to hear from some of you who know more about this than most people. In fact, some of you might be directly involving in working on these things.
America's defense and policy planners are calling for a new kind of war and a new kind of warfare. Few people have any idea what it might look like or how it might work.
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Nah, Uncle Sam wants a war- have you noticed he only ever kills brown people though?
How about we go back to the way we fought wars in WWII.. or better yet, the Civil War! That's what you would like, wouldn't you?
Whatever -- we're going to kill them both.
Oh, lets give the world a hug while we are at it. Lame!
...is with Robotechnology!
likely the new kinds suck harder.
Fucking hothead, redneck, racist white trash are killing Arab AMERICANs right here!
Just check out www.gnu.org, there you have a bunch of fanatics also.
enough nukes to leave them both glowing.
bin laden and hussein, whats the difference?
fuck 'em both!
BBC Sci/tech has a good article on satellite recon. Orbimage-4 is a private remote-sensing1 548000/1548860.stm
satellite with unique capabilities. It carries a
camera that takes images in 200 spectral bands - designed to analyse surface composition.
heres the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_
FIRE JON KATZ
who give a SHIT what you think?
you are the worst tech reporter EVER. You beat even Brock Meeks in term of stupidity.
your opinions are irrelevant.
you SUCK
FIRE JON KATZ!!
I heard they attacked an Italian lol
Or is it now flaming to present previously published works as evidence of the redundancy of articles?
Keep those tanks all going...
Um no.
Very dangerous words right now. In 1944 you would have been beaten to death on the way to your acquittal.
Someone mod this guy (and his dad) up.
As usual, the media offered much rhetoric, few details.
God forbid the government actually keep a secret in a time of war. You're right, we should email the Afgani government all our military plans so they can prepare. We wouldn't want to attack them before they're ready!
Can we declare jihad against Jon Katz? Or is Jon Katz really 10 monkeys sitting at a typewriter for a very long time?
How about we have "A New Kind of JonKatz"? The new kind of Jon Katz will just sit and listen for the next few years so he won't spout out that dribble that comes from his mouth.
You at least should seriously think before you speak, Jon. You aren't going to make everyone happy, but you sure as hell make a shitload of people upset.
Come on you fruit, Osama already had his trial.
I say we throw Ham Grenades at them!
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