Armed Predators could play a role in locating Saddam Hussein's mobile biological weapons laboratories or destroying targets in Baghdad that could be too risky for piloted aircraft.
Emphasis is put on identifying and co-opting influential individuals, controlling channels of information and destroying targets based on morale rather than military necessity.
But the murderous chaos in Iraq, and the growing violence in southern Afghanistan, have shown that America is good at destroying targets, and bad at rebuilding states.
The US navy has demonstrated a ship-mounted laser weapon system in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of Iran, capable of destroying targets on speeding boats or even aircraft with pin-point accuracy, it told reporters on Wednesday.
The American military, convinced that its bombers could now hit whatever they could see, developed a strategic approach to bombing, identifying and selectively destroying targets that were critical to the Nazi war effort.
It involves gathering huge amounts of data; processing them so that relevant information is displayed on a screen; and then destroying targets, at much greater distance and with much greater accuracy than was previously possible.
Each is loaded with Tomahawk cruise missiles, ideally designed for destroying targets on the ground.
He aimed to create a shooting game that featured the same sense of achievement from completing stages and destroying targets, but with more complex graphics.
The third event, the gyrocopter, challenges the player to take off and land on a runway after completing objectives like navigating a path of rings or destroying targets with missiles.
The trick was to actually move ahead of the target before shattering it: touch cheek, touch target, move ahead of target, then pull the trigger as you follow through and voila: destroy target!
