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• Newshounds are people with mini-video cameras, people who are continually taking pictures in the street and sending the tapes in to CNN. These Newshounds are a sort of pack of wolves, continually looking for quarry, but quarry in the form of images.

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  Cnn, People, Cameras

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• Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.

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  Writing, Concepts

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• Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.

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  War, Ocean, Sea

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• I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

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  Art, War, Chinese

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• The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

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  War, Long, Automation

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• While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

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  War, Views, Europe

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• The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident.

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  Giving, Bombs, Information

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• I am of course thinking here about new planes such as the Sukhois. There is very little discussion about such developments but, for me, I am constantly astonished by the current developments within the Russian airforce.

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  Thinking, Development, Littles

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• Despite the economic disaster that is Russia, there are still air shows taking place in the country.

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  Country, Russia, Air

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• I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

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  War, Believe, Race

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• Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in the arms race where a lot of good work was done, this has now come to an end. For what we are seeing at the present time are new developments in anti-missile weaponry, drones, and so on.

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  Race, Years, Drones

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• Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!

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  Country, War, Suicidal

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• Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy.

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  Dominance, Geopolitics, Crisis

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• What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world to nothing. And since military technologies are advanced technologies, what they actually sketch today is the future of the civil realm.

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  Military, Technology, World

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• Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

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  Light, Shapes, Speed

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• What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to what extent an immense territory, a whole continent, had effectively been reorganized into one city, and just like the cities of old. From that moment on, I became more interested in urban matters, in logistics, in the organisation of transport, in maintenance and supplies.

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  War, Europe, Cities

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• Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing!

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  Country, Russia, Looks

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• What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber' Harris used to say that 'Fortress Europe' was a fortress without a roof, since the Allies had air supremacy. Now, if we look at the Kosovo War, what do we see? We see a fortress without walls  but with a roof! Isn't that disappearance extraordinary?!

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  Wall, War, Air

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• For the US, GPS are a form of sovereignty! It is hardly surprising, then, that the EU has proposed its own GPS in order to be able to localize and to compete with the American GPS.

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  Gps, Order, Able

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• The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

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  Art, Museums, Cinema

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• The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there.

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  Here And There, Cyberspace, Research

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• I could give examples of cabinet ministers, including defence ministers, who have no technological culture at all. In other words, what I am suggesting is that the hype generated by the publicity around the Internet and so on is not counter balanced by a political intelligence that is based on a technological culture.

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  Hype, Giving, Political

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• The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that is to say, to the process because of which we now have two bottles instead of one. I might not see this virtual bottle, but I can feel it. It is settled within reality. This explains why the word virtual reality is more important than the word cyberspace, which is more poetic.

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  Reality, Two, Important

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• For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo.

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  Book, Bridges, Microsoft

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• Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

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  Art, Reality, Sculpture

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