Silicon Valley and the Pentagon – The New Pioneers of Biological Warfare
‘The future of warfare is guaranteed if the Pentagon and Silicon Valley technocrats have any say.
With government promises to counter ISIL without a centralized command on the complicated battlefields of Northern Iraq or Syria – which arguably, the U.S. government helped to create – what technologies will ensure that 69 cents of every stolen tax dollar will continue flooding into war profits?
If you complete a successful airstrike, ISIL fighters usually just migrate somewhere else. Is tried and true technology even the answer to “ending war” as is so often promised?
Former Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, gives us a hint in a recent interview with Wired,
“I think if there is going to be something ever that rivals nuclear weapons in terms of the pure fearsomeness of their destructiveness it’s more likely to come from biotechnology than any other technology.’
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