[Dextro]

Originally Posted by grylsyjaeger

War has changed.

It's not about nations, or ideologies.
It's not even about profit, resources, or ethnicity.

It's an endless series of proxy battles,
fought by mercenaries and machines.

War, and its vast consumption of human life,
has become a rational, well-oiled business transaction.

War has changed.

ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons,
use ID-tagged gear.

Nanomachines inside their bodies
enhance and regulate their actions.

Genetic control.. Information control..
Emotion control.. Battlefield control.

Everything is monitored, and kept under control.

War has changed.

The age of deterrence is now the age of control,
averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction.

And he who controls the battlefield, controls history.

War has changed.

When the battlefield is under total control,

War becomes routine.

Hum... I'm no hero. Never was, never will be...

Originally Posted by synaesthetic

The wars of the future will be economic, not military--and we're already right in the middle of the biggest one ever.

We're already fighting World War III--but it's being fought in boardrooms and banks, with profit-and-loss statements, securities, insider trading, industrial espionage, copyright trolling, patent trolling, lobbying, buying and selling politicians at home and abroad...

We're already fighting then biggest world war ever, and it's no longer the Allies versus the Axis, but the Corporate Robber-Barons versus Everyone Else.

I've been saying something like that for some time now. Sadly I can't really say I know where the lines are drawn, who are the on the side of right and who are wrong or even if anyone is right... I can't see who's an ally or a foe. It's a dirty war and most people are clueless to what is happening.