The Weaponization of Everyday Devices: A Growing Threat in Modern Warfare
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Turning pagers and walkie-talkies into bombs that assassinate Hezbollah personnel was an important a show of posture last week as any if today is the modern approach to warfare. While the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) alongside the use of these drones indicates a more general point about technology and how it is being weaponized in future conflicts. Does this sound like what we are exposed to today through regular communication channels? What if the very phones and machines we had got so useful in our normal lives were all weapons that flipped on us?
How Were These Devices Turned into Bombs?
The step from pagers, walkie-talkies and other forms of communication to IEDs is intentionally a hop, skip and a jump — all one very careful dance through the modern snake-pit that is asymmetric…
