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'Killer' drones for Australia? : Comments

By Peter Coates, published 2/3/2015

The war against Islamic State in Iraq has made training remote aircrew for drones and acquisition of armed drones themselves a high priority for the RAAF.

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That I did, Tom. That I did.

I see you attended Tandem Thrust on the USS Blue Ridge - with a photo of you in the middle http://www.tomw.net.au/nt/tt97.html.

What men do on a ship stays on the ship, I like to say.

Enough said.

Cheers

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Friday, 6 March 2015 6:22:25 PM
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Pete (plantagenet) posted, Friday, 6 March 2015 6:22:25 PM:

> I see you attended Tandem Thrust on the USS Blue Ridge ... http://www.tomw.net.au/nt/tt97.html

Yes, I was a civilian in a borrowed uniform, observing how the US 7th Fleet flagship used the Internet for conducting amphibious operations.

> What men do on a ship stays on the ship ...

The ship was crewed by men *and* women. What they do is hardly secret: after the exercise off Queensland, the ship visited Sydney, so I arranged a talk on-board for the IT industry: http://web.archive.org/web/20051118202932/http://www.acs.org.au/news/usnavy.htm
Posted by tomw, Saturday, 7 March 2015 9:37:16 AM
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As Japan develops its hard power doctrine (reformed military policy and alliances) Japan needs to alter its soft power image. Ayako Sono's recent writings advocating racial segregation for immigrants in Japan have not helped things http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21644496-japan-considers-welcoming-more-foreign-workers-its-shores-bestselling-author-calls-their .

Another image problem is that Japan still has a lower caste http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin while the US has improved so much that a black person is its President.

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 8 March 2015 11:37:43 AM
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Whoops!

The above comment "Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 8 March 2015 11:37:43 AM" was intended as a comment on my previous article "Australia: the future junior ally of Japan" of 5 February 2015 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=17065 .

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 8 March 2015 2:47:34 PM
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