The Death of Precision in Warfare?

The article makes some great points with respect to the vulnerabilities and dependencies we have created in the electromagnetic spectrum as we require exquisite knowledge of time and space for every platform. I think the article fails to make the case for the larger (headline) claim against precision for two reasons: 1. The authors never mention that war is political, and CNN is everywhere. Less precision equals more unintended deaths of non-combatants, and Al Jazeera is all too happy to show our failure and "savagery" to the world. 2. The claim that "Western militaries have prepared to fight adversaries that look like them, rather than those adversaries they can expect to fight." may be true, but it does not mean the strategy is wrong. Possessing overwhelming capability against enemies you expect to fight by building matching-or-better capability against our most advanced adversaries, is exactly how to avoid war. The article fails to mention that overwhelming power is a deterrent. Precision may not be necessary for a totalitarian nation, but it is absolutely needed for democracies, where the people decide the limits of their support for the war.