A swarm of unmanned US aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp today in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan.
Five unmanned US strike aircraft, likely the Predators and Reapers, are reported to have fired 18 missiles at a camp and vehicles in the village of Datta Khel, a known al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold. This is the largest recorded US airstrike in Pakistan, indicating a top al Qaeda, Taliban, or Haqqani Network leader, or leaders, may have been present.
Seventeen terrorists are reported to have been killed in the missile attack.
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New technology will limit civilian casualties, smaller more accurate smarter munitions,
and expanded intelligence collecting, Humint and Electronic.
This method doesn't involve the SysAdmin nation building paradigm.
Its just targeted to removing the Cancer, or al Qaeda cult cadre.
This new paradigm puts the US Military on par with the terrorist
in reference to retaliative inexpensive counter attacks,
and the ability to spread counter strikes around the world
as the al Qaeda cult expands in the GAP.
Its a short term solution to the spreading al Qaeda cult,
and relieves tension and security concerns around an US
invasion of other countries in the GAP.
Thousands of stealthy long range un-manned remote controlled drones
tied to CIA intelligence teams maybe an effective response to
to al Qaeda cult heavy weapon squads deployed to start
insurgencys any where in the GAP.
Cost effective, reduced risk, smaller footprint, less threating and
faster deployment than traditional invasions or man power, which
are troop intensive and can be targeted by IEDs.
But still leaves the problems of connecting the GAP to the CORE
with a new SysAdmin paradigm.
Gerald
Anthropologist