New US pain weapon in the works...

[Shmee]

Neat...

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mec ... 524894.500

They'd better do exhaustive human testing before applying this in crowd control situations. Degenerative nervouse system damage anyone?

[Who]

Neat...

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mec ... 524894.500

They'd better do exhaustive human testing before applying this in crowd control situations. Degenerative nervouse system damage anyone?

nasty! :icon23:

[blood.angel]

The key words is 'funding development'.
They could fund for the development for warp speed but that doesnt mean they'll ever get it.

Its going to be hilarious watching it being used on protesters for the WTO meets.

[The HavoX]

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[Pext]

way to control the riots if they re-establish the draft for attacking iran :icon14:
gangs of new york II

[Chemical Burn]

These would be a fun and exciting replacement for the taser. :icon26:

[R00k]

These would be a fun and exciting replacement for the taser. :icon26:

That's a good way to put it. :icon14:

I've been reading about this for a few weeks now. I personally think it's scary as hell. Especially the fact that there's no fuss over the military researching civilian crowd control techniques.

[lars63]

This doesn't sound good

[Ryoki]

Madness.

[Tormentius]

Especially the fact that there's no fuss over the military researching civilian crowd control techniques.

Prepping for the police state...

[R00k]

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO503A.html

The Pentagon has released the summary of a top secret Pentagon document, which sketches America's agenda for global military domination.

This redirection of America's military strategy seems to have passed virtually unnoticed. With the exception of The Wall Street Journal (see below in annex), not a word has been mentioned in the US media.

There has been no press coverage concerning this mysterious military blueprint. The latter outlines, according to the Wall Street Journal, America's global military design which consists in "enhancing U.S. influence around the world", through increased troop deployments and a massive buildup of America's advanced weapons systems.

While the document follows in the footsteps of the administration's "preemptive" war doctrine as detailed by the Neocons' Project of the New American Century (PNAC), it goes much further in setting the contours of Washington's global military agenda.

It calls for a more "proactive" approach to warfare, beyond the weaker notion of "preemptive" and defensive actions, where military operations are launched against a "declared enemy" with a view to "preserving the peace" and "defending America".

The document explicitly acknowledges America's global military mandate, beyond regional war theaters. This mandate also includes military operations directed against countries, which are not hostile to America, but which are considered strategic from the point of view of US interests.

From a broad military and foreign policy perspective, the March 2005 Pentagon document constitutes an imperial design, which supports US corporate interests Worldwide.

"At its heart, the document is driven by the belief that the U.S. is engaged in a continuous global struggle that extends far beyond specific battlegrounds, such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The vision is for a military that is far more proactive, focused on changing the world instead of just responding to conflicts such as a North Korean attack on South Korea, and assuming greater prominence in countries in which the U.S. isn't at war. (WSJ, 11 March 2005)

The document suggests that its objective also consists in "offensive" rather than run of the mill "preemptive" operations. There is, in this regard, a subtle nuance in relation to earlier post-911 national security statements:

"[The document presents] 'four core' problems, none of them involving traditional military confrontations. The services are told to develop forces that can: build partnerships with failing states to defeat internal terrorist threats; defend the homeland, including offensive strikes against terrorist groups planning attacks; influence the choices of countries at a strategic crossroads, such as China and Russia; and prevent the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by hostile states and terrorist groups." (Ibid)

The emphasis is no longer solely on waging major theater wars as outlined in the PNAC's Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century" , the March 2005 military blueprint points to shifts in weapons systems as well as the need for a global deployment of US forces in acts of Worldwide military policing and intervention. The PNAC in its September 2000 Report had described these non-theater military operations as "constabulary functions":

The Pentagon must retain forces to preserve the current peace in ways that fall short of conduction major theater campaigns. ... These duties are today’s most frequent missions, requiring forces configured for combat but capable of long-term, independent constabulary operations." (PNAC, http://www.newamericancentury.org/Rebui ... fenses.pdf , p. 18)

Gung Ho! :icon14: