Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Military Is Urged To Rely Less On Drones


Advisers Urge Military To Rely Less On Drones, More On Expertise -- Washington Times

Military operations in Afghanistan rely too much on intelligence gathered by unmanned drones, often exclude important publicly available data and do not focus enough on the recruitment of human agents, a Pentagon report says.

The report by the Defense Science Board, a panel that advises the Pentagon, says that the defense budget does not properly direct funding for open-source intelligence collection - information available to the public and gathered from a wide variety of sources, including academic papers and newspapers.

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My Comment: The Defense Science Board may say one thing .... but the Pentagon is looking to double its unmanned Air Force.

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