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Friday, March 10, 2006 12:00 AM

Shark and awe

The Pentagon plans to put neural implants in sharks to have them serve as underwater spies -- another example of a defense budget gone mad.
By Tom Engelhardt

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  • Thursday, March 9, 2006 08:33 PM

    Already obsolete

    The US military is an expensive toy that isn't even capable of conquering a small, weak nation so we can steal it's natural resources. In this post 1945 age when a person with a smuggled nuclear weapon can wipe out a city, things like aircraft carriers, tanks, and jets are about as useful as badly trained sharks.

    It is all a boondoggle, but it isn't going away anytime soon.

    —azathoth Read azathoth's other letters

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