Exhausted pilots fly armed drones

I wrote previously here about how our land based robots are terrorizing the human populace. Now this report reveals that the meatbag pilots who fly our armed drones though the sky are much more fatigued than normal pilots. (By normal I simply mean the ones who sit in the planes they pilot instead of remotely controlling a battle bot.) It's an interesting report, especially when it suggests that these joystick jockeys are routinely harassed by the other pilots. I mean, we are in a war zone here, can't we expect a little unity? (If you want to see some of the horrors these soldiers must witness, here is a You Tube video of some pilot POVs. Warning, it's graphic stuff.)

Reading this report was fascinating for me because I finally read the classic Sci-Fi novel Ender's Game last month. It tells the story of a military complex which trains children on war game simulators to become tomorrow's army. And the reality echoes the fiction even more since the entire book has a bleary eyed tone of men being pushed to exhaustion by the war machine.