Originally published in Defense News “The obsessions of the technological utopians derive equally from the deeply and quaintly American belief that all human problems have engineering solutions, and from the profoundly unAmerican … post-Vietnam search for technological silver bullets that will permit U.S. forces to wage war without suffering – or perhaps even inflicting casualties.” ~MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, “The Dynamics of Military Revolution” “Every military weapon ever built has instigated another weapon to counter it.” ~Helen Caldicott, “The New Nuclear Danger” Earlier this spring, within the space of four days, the Washington Post and the New York Times printed articles about America’s national missile defense program that spoke volumes about the technological utopianism and recklessness of President George W. Bush’s administration. On April … Read entire article »