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The eyes in the sky? Watching you? Endlessly? For once, it's not the disapproving stare of a vengeful God: it's a giant, sensor-filled airship, at least if you're in Afghanistan later this fall. Then there's the spy satellites floating in low-earth orbit, borne on the back of a giant rocket. Worse yet, a Navy plane overhead will slip malicious code into your networks and turn your radars blind, deaf and dumb. This was how we bombarded you from the air this week.
On land, we took Tasers to your animals. We watched the Marine commandant spin away his woes on his axed amphibious vehicle. We reported on the controversy about pummeling Afghan villages into dust. We heard the Army say more reservists are committing suicide. We prepared for urban combat with Lockheed Martin.
The seas were no safer. The Navy's top officer got passive-aggressive at China, Somali pirates saw Erik Prince bankroll their enemies after they hit up maritime commerce for $12 billion last year, and the Free Electron Laser got a technological boost.
In fact, we hit you from all angles. Taiwan's missiles suck and so does the Pentagon's biodefense. al-Qaeda's Martha Stewart is out of DIY terror tips. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed can't even trust his own veins not to implicate him in murder cases. If Stuxnet was a U.S./Israel joint jam, it may have upped the ante for all cyberwar. And on Monday, we return, to exert full-spectrum dominance over your defense-futurism needs.
