Mumbai attack plan used Google Earth: US chief
Washington: Citing the example of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, a top US military commander has warned of the dangers posed by “democratisation” of technology in future warfare.
“Now, in many ways, technology has been democratised,” Marine Corps Lt Gen George J Flynn said at the 6th annual 2012 Joint Warfighting Conference at Virginia Beach on Tuesday.
Referring to the greater availability of information potentially empowering conventional and non-traditional state actors, he cited a Harvard Business Review article detailing the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack as an example.
“All the mission planning was done via Google Earth,” he said.
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