Monday, March 31, 2014

For God and Country, Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo


Wars are about fighting the enemy and back in the day, the enemy was very clear and was usually running towards you trying to kill you. With advancement in technology like ammunition, artillery, and basic body armor, people are becoming harder to kill. So we make bombs and even bigger bullets and so on. Also now we are not fighting for land we are fighting for different causes. In the case of Zero Dark Thirty, Americans were fighting the war on terror by locating and taking Osama Bin Laden. In which case since we were not fighting a full nation and only fighting people who all look alike, you could not tell if the person next to you was your enemy or was an ally. Using tools like a signal search to find the cell phone that was being used to make calls and then eventually using drone to look into the compound. Woman played a role in the movie by either being the intelligence behind the search or just a wife going for a gun and was eventually shot. As we move on to different types of warfare we may not know who is the enemy in the future. It could be someone who has a vendetta out for whatever country in his or her mind. Or it could be the person sitting in a cubical at the CIA Headquarters who is just fed up with life and thinks they can take on the world. Also with the ever-advancing minds of the youth now a day, kids as young as 12 are hacking the computers of federal businesses and are out doing the men and women that have graduated MIT. Which the phrase of “if you can’t beat them, hire them” comes into play and which is probably the reason why we have so many computer hackers. So if you can’t beat them…. Destroy them works just as well.

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