https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/14/calm-down-about-north-korea/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 11:20:36 -0400<![CDATA[This is mostly nonsense. David Edgerton of Imperial College London remarked (in his book The Shock of the Old) on the &#8220;paradox of lethality&#8221;, with conflicts becoming less lethal even as weapons ostensibly become more so. The reason is that those on which most money is spent – hi-tech, high-profile airborne ones – are fundamentally inaccurate, and are anyway useless at taking territory. Missiles, which now include drones, seduce generals into an illusion of power, when in reality they are little more than weapons of terror. War is about holding land, not blowing up people and things.]]>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:20:29 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/14/calm-down-about-north-korea-n280587