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In the age of one-click warfare and drone-delivered convenience, it’s getting harder to tell if the thing buzzing overhead is bringing you a book—or a JDAM. Somewhere in Yemen, a couple of Houthis just had the worst case of delivery anxiety imaginable.
This cartoon nails the surreal overlap between Silicon Valley and the warfighter’s world. When Amazon starts slapping logos on stealth drones with “Big Boom!” written underneath, you’ve officially entered the dystopian express lane.
Welcome to modern logistics, where the line between e-commerce and airstrikes gets blurrier by the payload.
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In the age of one-click warfare and drone-delivered convenience, it’s getting harder to tell if the thing buzzing overhead is bringing you a book—or a JDAM. Somewhere in Yemen, a couple of Houthis just had the worst case of delivery anxiety imaginable.
This cartoon nails the surreal overlap between Silicon Valley and the warfighter’s world. When Amazon starts slapping logos on stealth drones with “Big Boom!” written underneath, you’ve officially entered the dystopian express lane.
Welcome to modern logistics, where the line between e-commerce and airstrikes gets blurrier by the payload.
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