Have often wondered the actual use of such equipment in today's society.
Example.
You have latest high tech satellite guided missile but I put a children's hospital cum orphanage on top of my military bunker. What can you do?
30 years ago one would just bomb the structure and call it collateral damage. But today the hundreds of camera phones would transmit pictures of blown up children all over the world and inflame the situation on both sides.
The war of public opinion is now even more important than actual war itself.
When the Israelis made a quick move into Lebanon, the superior weaponry was stopped cold by public opinion. Enemy was hiding with population. And in a way cannot blame enemy given that the Israeli were superior in weaponary.
Unless public is willing to turn a blind eye to "turning a city into a sand pit with its dismembered parts of young children" weapons are of little use.
