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And there were people, strategists, within the U.S. military who genuinely thought that this single device was going to spell the difference between defeat and victory when it came to the battle against the Nazis and against the Japanese.
If you go into the military, you'll find lots of Carl Nordens as well.
In the Iraq War, at the beginning of the first Iraq War, the U.S. military, the air force, sent two squadrons of F-15E Fighter Eagles to the Iraqi desert equipped with these five million dollar cameras that allowed them to see the entire desert floor.
Steak, which stands for a Mubarak-Ben Ali type of military police dictatorship, or a potato, which stands for a Tehran type of theocracies.
Whenever you see young people in front of the row trying to fraternize with the police or military, somebody was thinking about it before.
Will these revolutions be pushed through the transitions and democracy or be overtaken by the military or extremists of all kinds?
You already begin to see the development of foreign policies, the augmentation of military budgets occurring in the other growing powers in the world.
They may represent social, religious, political, economic, military realities.
They may have to be dealt with with military means, but they cannot be solved by military means.
And sometimes military intervention is necessary.
I happen to believe that Libya was necessary and that military intervention in Afghanistan was also necessary.
And my country relies on its security through military alliance, that's clear.
10 years after that military intervention, that country is far from secure.
Now again, the military is necessary, but the military is no problem-solver.
We need military presence, but we need to move to politics.
As the highest military commander of the Netherlands, with troops stationed around the world, I'm really honored to be here today.
When I got a military scholarship two weeks later, they let me go.
If you think about the sorts of things we've sent Australian military personnel to in recent years, we've got obvious things like Iraq and Afghanistan, but you've also got things like East Timor and the Solomon Islands, and so on.
And a lot of these deployments that we're sending military personnel to these days aren't traditional wars.
So there's a bunch of problems that come up for military personnel in these situations, because they're doing things they haven't really been trained for.
Now, there's a bunch of reasons why we send military personnel, rather than police, to do these jobs.
One particular thing that's come up that I am especially interested in, is the question of whether, when we're sending military personnel to do these sorts of jobs, we ought to be equipping them differently; and in particular, whether we ought to be giving them access to some of the nonlethal weapons that police have.
For example, when you've got military checkpoints.
If people are approaching these checkpoints and the military personnel are unsure if this person's hostile or not, say this person approaching here, and they say, "Is this a suicide bomber or not?
It'd be collateral damage that the military often doesn't want to talk about.
And this one in the middle here, the large truck, is called the Active Denial System, something the US military is working on at the moment.
So there's a whole range of different nonlethal weapons we could give military personnel, and there's a whole range of situations where they're looking at them and saying, "These things would be really useful."
But as I said, the military and the police are very different.
Military personnel are being trained for war.
And since we've already had so many problems with police use of nonlethal weapons in various ways, I thought it would be a good idea to look at some of those things and relate it to the military context.
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