Resistance to Kill vs Distance from Target
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Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away
29 Jul 2012
Colonel Brenton
acknowledges the peculiar new disconnect of fighting a telewar with a joystick
and a throttle from his padded seat in American suburbia. Of a dozen pilots,
sensor operators and supporting intelligence analysts recently interviewed from
three American military bases, none acknowledged the kind of personal feelings
for Afghans that would keep them awake at night after seeing the bloodshed left
by missiles and bombs. But all spoke of a certain intimacy with Afghan family
life that traditional pilots never see from 20,000 feet, and that even ground
troops seldom experience.
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