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US military suicide

This is an amazing statement:

For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

By Jason Kottke  •  Jan 25, 2011  •  military   suicide   USA   war

On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan,

On the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, robots are fast becoming part of the US military family. "The colonel just could not stand the pathos of watching the burned, scarred and crippled machine drag itself forward on its last leg. This test, he charged, was inhumane." (via cd)

By Jason Kottke  •  May 14, 2007  •  afghanistan   Iraq   military   robots   war

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