And Now… More Troops to Libya to Search for Thousands of Looted Surface to Air Missiles
September 29th, 2011Northrop Grumman will be pleased.
Via: AntiWar:
According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the United States is preparing to deploy additional forces on the ground in Libya to “secure conventional arms storage sites” as well as to try to track down missing surface-to-air missiles (SAMs).
In the wake of the rebel invasion of Tripoli, large arms depots across the western half of the nation were looted, and it is estimated that some 20,000 shoulder-launched SAMs were among what had gone missing, many of them wound up on the arms markets in neighboring nations.
Though weapons of all shapes and sizes were looted, the shoulder-launched SAMs are of particular concern to the US, as they could pose a threat to US warplanes the world over now that they are out of the warehouses and in general circulation.
I am wondering what we need more troops for doing these “tasks” when it appears that the technology robots, drones, or whatever, have the situation under control.
I guess humans are killed “in battle” these days when they are out there checking on the “welfare” of the machines.
Sci-fi deluxe coming to the war theatre nearest you. WAR SUCKS.