America’s Cyborg Warriors
by Tom Burghardt / July 24th, 2008

As the costs of imperialist war skyrocket, securocrats find themselves under the gun so to speak, of corporate and Pentagon masters demanding “results.”

No matter that the solutions sought are for “smart” weapons–particularly those that “think”–systems they believe capable of dominating global south and “homeland” cities. This quest for technological mastery has been dubbed by Pentagon theorists as “network-centric warfare” (Rumsfeld’s “Revolution in Military Affairs” [RMA]) a “transformational” process that turn cities, any city, into a limitless “battlespace.”

Indeed, current U.S. Army doctrine for fighting in urban environments define the problem as central to U.S. “national security,”

As urbanization has changed the demographic …

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