Robot Wars AKA warfare by remote control

27th December 2011: Over the past decade, the US military has shifted the way it fights its wars, deploying more unmanned systems in the battlefield than ever before

Today there are more than 7,000 drones and 12,000 ground robots in use by all branches of the military

These systems mean less American deaths and also less political risk for the US when it takes acts of lethal force -- often outside of official war zones

But US lethal drone strikes in countries like Pakistan have brought up serious questions about the legal and political implications of using these systems

Al Jazeera's Fault Lines looks at how these new weapons of choice are allowing the US to stretch the international laws of war and what it could mean when more and more autonomy is developed for these lethal machines

See the original plus more info here: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2011/12/2011122512243829505.html

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