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From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 15:15:43 +0800
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Subject: Non-Lethal Terrorism
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For background on the recent cyber-terrorists reports from
London, we offer the Council on Foreign Relations' 1995
report:
NON-LETHAL TECHNOLOGIES
Military Options and Implications
Report of an Independent Task Force
The long history of military operations has been marked by
steady increases in the lethality of weapons. U.S.
commanders and policymakers face excruciating dilemmas in
decisions to use lethal force. They strive to maximize
protection of their own troops and to minimize collateral
casualties among noncombatants. Authoritarian regimes -- as
in Iraq -- and factions in civil wars -- as in Bosnia --
may see fear of American casualties as one factor in
deterring intervention against them. Terrorists, guerillas,
and other irregular forces often exploit noncombatant
populations by mounting attacks from their midst.
Can technology, ease these dilemmas by providing
acceptable, effective non-lethal capabilities to supplement
conventional weapons across a broad spectrum of conflict?
In major wars or similiar cases of high-level violence, can
such capabilities reduce the risk to U.S. forces by, in
effect, substituting technology for manpower in performing
certain missions, for example, by shutting off power
transmission and communications of adversaries? In
situations short of traditional warfare -- for example, the
humanitarian intervention in Somalia -- can non-lethal
systems help provide calibrated coercion proportional to
the objectives? How do they relate to the lethal systems on
which U.S. forces depend? What policy issues do such
technologies pose? In this report a bipartisan task force,
including former Air Force and Army chiefs of staff,
leading scientists, and other experts, examines these
questions. The task force concludes that a number of
non-lethal technologies deserve serious consideration in
U.S. planning and development for future military
contingencies.
http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/nltech.htm (47 kb)
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