Hm, what do others think, should we maybe use this political
development as a reason to change the name of the Battlemesh?

Regards, Linus


On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 02:37:47PM +0100, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> An update on the political side:
> 
> https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-107/
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/02/01/land-mines-trump/
> https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/01/31/us-trump-administration-abandons-landmine-ban
> https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/usa-donald-trump-gibt-landminen-wieder-fuer-das-us-militaer-frei-a-c65f5160-9894-4e73-a566-b87d61955f2e
> 
> - 164 countries banned anti-personel mines
>   (Ottawa Treaty [0]; e.g. USA, Russia, China, India did not sign it)
> - 2014 the Obama administratiton had limited the use of anti-personel
>   mines to betweeen South- and North Korea
> - Last Friday, Trump administration abandoned this for
>   "advanced, non-persistent landmines"
> 
> [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty
> 
> https://twitter.com/hrw/status/1223352270949175297
> https://twitter.com/marywareham/status/1223350274217140224
> https://twitter.com/marywareham/status/1223359126652309505
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 02:52:23PM +0200, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> > Souvenir from WBMv4 in Vic:
> > 
> > https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/07/12/army-researchers-building-smart-landmines-for-future-combat/
> > 
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> > Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction the patentability of
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