We Need More War - BFEE Business Plan is now the modern American Economic Worldview.

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29. That's what the All-Volunteer Army is for.

And the Drones, their Replacements.

In fact, all that Cheney's heirs will have to do to run war 'n' things is press a button and it's "Goodbye, protesting rabble."

Unfortunately for people who actually give a damn about the 99-percent, it's "Goodnight, Democracy."

How the Pentagon’s Skynet Would Automate War

by NAFEEZ AHMED
Vice.com, November 24, 2014

Pentagon officials are worried that the US military is losing its edge compared to competitors like China, and are willing to explore almost anything to stay on top—including creating watered-down versions of the Terminator.

Due to technological revolutions outside its control, the Department of Defense (DoD) anticipates the dawn of a bold new era of automated war within just 15 years. By then, they believe, wars could be fought entirely using intelligent robotic systems armed with advanced weapons.

Last week, US defense secretary Chuck Hagel ann​ounced the ‘Defense Innovation Initiative’—a sweeping plan to identify and develop cutting edge technology breakthroughs “over the next three to five years and beyond” to maintain global US "mili​tary-technological superiority." Areas to be covered by the DoD programme include robotics, autonomous systems, miniaturization, Big Data and advanced manufacturing, including 3D printing.

But just how far down the rabbit hole Hagel’s initiative could go—whether driven by desperation, fantasy or hubris—is revealed by an overlooked Pentagon-funded study, published quietly in mid-September by the DoD National Defense University’s (NDU) Center for Technology and National Security Policy in Washington DC.

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The NDU study warns that while accelerating technological change will “flatten the world economically, socially, politically, and militarily, it could also increase wealth inequality and social stress,” and argues that the Pentagon must take drastic action to avoid the potential decline of US military power: “For DoD to remain the world’s preeminent military force, it must redefine its culture and organizational processes to become more networked, nimble, and knowledge-based.”

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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-pentagons-skynet-would-automate-war

Then, the 1-percent can protect their loot with drones-n-robots. Better than an army, with VA hospitals and retirement and all that stuff those leechers leech.