I used to work for a sub-contractor to the military-industrial complex. I quit for ethical reasons. Never looked back.
Thank you.
Clearly the system isn't perfect, and there appears to be a major professionalism problem within the operators of the drone fleet. But removing drones from the equation in this scenario would have resulted in the AC130 spotting the convoy and making a determination based on less time and less imagery.
Reading that article was horrifying. One one side, the banality of it all. On the other... I can't even imagine what it was like to experience that, and I think I am happier that I can't.
The statement 'war is a game' has never been more true.
This is really all it takes.
Unfortunately there are way too many people who will "feed their kids" by any means necessary.
I'd like to have this subject discussed much more often than it is nowadays. Military is on an extreme of the ethical-unethical scale but there are many more cases which would deeply fall into the unethical side of the scale and are not being talked about at all.