Month: September 2024

Would “supervised wars” always devolve into bitter and uncontrolled violence?

Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: This is a bit of an odd question, but I mean it seriously. What would people think of “Olympic war games”? Rather than ad hoc wars and armed conflicts like Israal Palestine, or Ukraine Russia, or dozens of countries having armed conflicts. Suppose wars were supervised and controlled. Part of
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Modular GigaWatt units only have to store and deliver for a few minutes

Military Affairs: US Tests Its Monstrously Powerful Laser Carrier To Beat Hypersonic Missiles at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmN23S8GmWk For SpaceX type earth to orbit and orbit to earth field generators, many modular 2 GigaWatt units only have to store and deliver for a few minutes, so they can be small and if some fail, sufficient backup is available.
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