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U.S. Navy Chief to Geeks: Tech Doesn't Count

Noah Shachtman writes on Danger Room:

Navy Secretary Donald Winter has made a habit of telling military audiences exactly what they don’t want to hear. A few months back, he told a bunch of defense contractors that they were basically robbing the Pentagon blind. Now, he just told the 3,000 geeks gathered at the DARPATech conference in Anaheim that all their gee-whiz gadgetry may not help at all in the war on terror.

There’s a tendency to view Islamists as backwards barbarians, Winter said. This image is “misleading and very dangerous.” The terrorist enemy is more likely to be a “engineer in a lab” than an “evildoer in a cave.”

posted by Fergie @ 8/08/2007 11:38:00 AM