Soldiers are notoriously unreliable. The Afghan troops are disorganized under US supervision, while their Taliban counterparts fight the occupying forces to a stalemate. Same tribesmen. Different motivation. This quandary befuddles military strategists, although modernists within the Pentagon tout the value of a soldier designed along the second stanza of Alfred Tennyson's famed poem THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Now the six hundred has been reduced to one.
A drone missile.
No sex.
No need for 'don't ask, don't tell'.
A eunuch warrior capable of violating Assimov's three laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Next stage; the Terminator.
Nothing is evil for Mr. "I'll be back'.
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