ESSAY
"What Dangers Do Iraqi Defenses Pose for U.S. Pilots?"

Categories

David Smith

March 18, 2003

World

Politics

Technology

Iraq/Iraqi war

Technological determinism

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"It seems that the United States go to war with the army of Saddam Hussein in Iraq later this week in the hopes of deposing one of the most dangerous men in the middle east.  Twelve years ago, similar events played out for the peoples of America and Iraq as the United States aggressively defended its strategic interests in the Middle East....
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The end result of the Iraqi fortification of Baghdad seems to be a much more strategic war that pits high technology systems against less sophisticated systems.  In the very least it will be an interesting illustration of the evolution of war."

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