{"id":11200,"date":"2015-08-18T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:24:08","slug":"pentagon-plans-to-boost-drone-flights-50-as-bernanke-warns-cutting-defense-spending-could-hurt-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11200","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In the event you were becoming concerned that the U.S. government might be backing away from its longstanding policy of endless violence, militarism and bloodshed, fear not. If we know one thing for sure, it\u2019s that defense contractors and the military-intelligence-industrial complex must earn. And continue to earn it will.<\/p>\n

So despite the Air Force having\u00a0a hard time finding pilots for its drones<\/a><\/strong>, the Pentagon still\u00a0plans to ramp up drone flights by 50% over the next four years.<\/p>\n

We learn\u00a0from the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>that:<\/p>\n

The Pentagon plans to sharply expand the number of U.S. drone flights over the next four years, giving military commanders access to more intelligence and greater firepower to keep up with a sprouting number of global hot spots, a senior defense official said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The plan to increase by 50% the number of daily drone flights would broaden surveillance and intelligence collection in such locales as Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, the South China Sea and North Africa, said the official, who provided exclusive details of the plan to The Wall Street Journal. It would be the first significant increase in the U.S. drone program since 2011, reflecting pressure on military efforts to address a cascading series of global crises.<\/em><\/p>\n

While expanding surveillance, the Pentagon plan also grows the capacity for\u00a0lethal airstrikes<\/a>, the most controversial part of the U.S. drone program and its\u00a0rapid growth under President\u00a0<\/a>Barack Obama<\/a>\u00a0. Strikes by unmanned aircraft have killed 3,000 people or more, based on estimates by nonpartisan groups.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the most offensive part about all of this, is that the \u201ccascading series of global crises\u201d mentioned by the WSJ, are the direct result of incredibly inept and destructive U.S. foreign policy in the first place. Recall the post from earlier today titled,\u00a0Additional Details Emerge on How U.S. Government Policy Created, Armed, Supported and Funded ISIS<\/a><\/strong>. Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

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Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy In the event you were becoming concerned that the U.S. government might be backing away from its longstanding policy of endless violence, militarism and bloodshed, fear not. If we know one thing for sure, it\u2019s that defense contractors and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1007,4285,6174,524,620,8250,843,861],"class_list":["post-11200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-drones","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-militarism","tag-pentagon","tag-us-defense-spending","tag-us-government","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}