About the same time as I was thinking about the politics of bull-fighting that precipitated this podcast, I heard an interview with a drone pilot who bombs targets in Afghanistan from a command a command post somewhere in the western US. He seemed like a nice enough guy and I’m sure his work requires a tremendous amount of skill. But I had trouble buying into the notion that what he did was as difficult as actually being there. As with the historical evolution of bull-fighting, this change in warfare struck me as another instance of leadership by remote instead of by example.
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