Pure genius

Things have been kind of heavy at KOW lately. Let’s introduce another subject. In recent years there has been a surge of interest in non-lethal weapons. The reasons for this are fairly obvious: our forces,

increasingly operate in challenging environments known as military operations other than war. These operations include humanitarian assistance, military support to civil authorities, peacekeeping and peacemaking operations, and non-combatant evacuations. US Forces are involved in support and stability operations (SASO) throughout the globe. Maintaining and establishing law and order, reducing civil disturbances and responding to varied levels of threat have become mission assignments. Countering these with varied levels of force become recurring tasks for military forces involved in joint multinational and interagency operations.

Non-Lethal munitions applications will be used by military personnel to apply the minimum force necessary while performing missions of crowd control and area security at key facilities around the globe. These devices will aid military forces/commanders in situations of hostages rescue, capture of criminals, terrorists, or control of other adversarial persons.

There are lots of different types of non-lethal weapons ranging from gases that cause discomfort or nausea and loud noises (induced by microwaving people’s heads in one variant), sticky foam to glue people in place, various types of, strictly-speaking, usually-not-lethal projectiles (eg., rubber bullets and bean bags), to high-tech and (methinks) probably not very useful devices such as pain rays and blinding lasers (which are probably illegal under the laws of war anyway) or strobe lights that cause vertigo and nausea. 

But none of these, in my view, beat the sheer genius of this device. If we’re going to go around the world reordering the priorities of nations wholesale then we need this bomb. 

Call your Congressman! Write the Prime Minister. Demand this vital project be funded! Aircraft carriers? With this device we don’t need any stinking aircraft carriers…