Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Military Engineer
Having Military Engineers is a great idea. Their main purpose is to look at height of buildings, its structure, the amount of people in that area at that specific time of day, etc... In addition, look at the weapon type and the angle at which the weapon will be dropped and the extent of the explosion. All this is taken into account by the engineers to help determine the amount of civilian casualties that might occur if this particular air strike was to occur. This is good to know to help minimize the amount of civilian casualties. An air strike has a particular purpose. Its purpose is to destroy a specific target, not to destroy that target and kill Innocent lives. In that past, we have killing thousands of innocent civilians. For example, the bombing of Hiroshima. We destroyed our target, the main purpose of the bombing, but in addition affected millions of lives with radiation, as well as killing most of the people. What is the point in that? Today, the U.S. is coming up with ways to achieve our goal of destroying our targets without killing thousands of civilians. As said by Marc Garlasco, we are coming up with weapons of low density casualties to help eliminate the excess killings of those lives who we do not need to diminish. I think that in addition to these weapons, military engineers can count and help eliminate civilian casualties and therefore help decrease the unnecessary violence and anger that might stir up against the U.S. due to these civilian killings, while acquiring a target.
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