Sometimes I think I should just turn this Best Defense blog over to Jim Gourley

Quote of the day from him, in a comment
about drones:

We are 'evolving' the military to be a
human force that performs civil-military relations and infrastructure work with
a smaller 'killer elite' group of spec-ops, intelligence, and drone units that
operate in the dark without the knowledge, let alone supervision, of the
civilian society that's supposed to control them. We know less and less about
what our military is doing, but the really troubling part is that we like it
that way.