https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/05/09/new-army-goggles-help-soldiers-see-through-smoke-fog/588488002/
This is what they are admitting, what is combat ready. It is a fraction of what I have seen in my daydreams.
Every new weapons technology developed, no matter the purpose, no matter the purported need, no matter the prospective enemy, works to make every single person more potentially powerful, and the lunatic dreams of power of psychopaths more realizable with fewer people.
We can develop these tools to defend America, but once existing they will, over an increasingly short time horizon, be available to everyone.
I don’t know the solution, but I do know we have among us enemies of a global peace without a global tyranny.