DBK alone is meaningless. Military relevance comes from the ability to hit what you cansee. To do this it is necessary to analyze the synergy of DBK and a new class ofautonomous weapons in a canonical scenario -- what might have occurred if SaddamHussein's lunge in October 1994 had not stopped short of the Kuwait border. AlthoughDBK can deter, the assumption in this case is that it did not; the issue is whether DBKmated to autonomous weapons can let the United States win in a timely manner, withoutmajor deployment or without having to buy new platforms. Autonomous weapons --sensor-fuzed weapons (SFW), brilliant anti-tank submunition (BAT) and wide-areamunitions (WAM) -- are those needing far less human guidance than earlier weapons andpromising a high Pk if placed within range.
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