Re: Serious portrayal of unmanned combat?
- From: Mad Hamish <newsunspammelaws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:24:21 +1000
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:41:26 -0700 (PDT), ilya2@xxxxxxx wrote:
of this phenomenon). Has any SF tried to portray war by remote
control, and psychology of people waging it, in realistic manner?
Haldeman's "Forever Peace" comes to mind, but from my point of view it
has two flaws (SPOILERS AHEAD!):
2. Soldierboy robots somewhere in South America (Columbia?) are run by
operators in Panama. Why not in continental US? AFAICT, the only
reason is to make a suicidal guerilla attack on the operators
plausible.
To cut down on transmission time perhaps?
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