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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 SAT写作赏析：现代战争武器 SAT写作赏析：SAT写作范文赏析：现代战争武器 SAT备考辅导  新SAT写作题目：  Adapted from David Bell, in Defense of Drones: A Historical Argument  ., 1/27/2012  新SAT写作范文：  Source:  Once upon a time, American military might was symbolized by the heavy boots of the Marine Corps, stomping ashore to reestablish order in unruly parts of the world. Today, it is symbolized by unmanned drone aircraft, controlled from thousands of miles away, dropping bombs on terrorists. Drone use aims to cut troops, ships and planes while concentrating our military energies on spy technology, cyber warfare, jammers, and special operations forces.  The embrace of technology over traditional methods of combat has provoked critics who doubt the morality and political implications of remote control warfare. Norte Dame law professor Mary Ellen OConnell, argues that to accept killing far from battlefields where there is an understanding of necessity is ethically troubling. The Economist similarly asked: if war can be waged by one side without risk to the life and limb of its combatants, has a vital form of restraint been removed?  Other critics tend to present this new frontier of warfare as something largely novel--one that radically changed the political dynamics of warfare. But if our current technology is new, the desire to take out ones enemies from a safe distance is anything but. From the beginnings of warfare, combatants have sought technological advantages of allowing them to kill enemies with minimum risk to themselves. And, these advances have always provoked criticism. We dont know if anyone excoriated the inventor of the bow and arrow as a dishonorable coward who refused to risk death in a hand to hand fight. Not surprisingly, after gunpowder weapons appeared, critics unloosed torrents of chivalric outrage. As late as the 1500s, the Italian poet Ariosto raged at this wicked and terrible discovery which had de