Glorified precision weapons turn the planet into a toxic combatant.

Evidence

Americans cannot afford to shrink military threats to the future to the real but reductive threat of terrorism. If we continue to glorify poisonous weapons of fake precision, belated war deaths will become increasingly widespread, as will the political consequences of the accompanying blowback rage. We will face an unbounded war, as the planet itself metastasizes into a combatant: the ultimate, toxic hyperpower, a force of random, abiding retribution. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 710

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Precision-warfare rhetoric masks the long-term toxic deaths it causes — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 587

Broader Connections

• Precision-warfare rhetoric masks the long-term toxic deaths it causes #expands (0.90) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 587