Lexington | Medals for drone pilots?

摘要

Some time soon, it is possible to imagine, an American cyber-warrior will end a conflict, almost single-handed. With the right acts of digital sabotage, attack aircraft will be grounded, infrastructure disrupted and communications severed, reducing the enemy to a state of raging, pre-modern impotence. Yet if such a virtual victory were pulled off tomorrow, Pentagon chiefs would not know how to honour it. Even more workaday acts of remote warfare-such as when drone operators shoot missiles or spy on enemies-confound today's commanders, who are unsure how to rank them alongside acts involving physical risk.