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>From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
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Subject: Re: 21st Century Soldier
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In article <4SEP199212055495@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov> olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson) writes:
>In article <185borINNj1l@agate.berkeley.edu>, cascio@garnet.berkeley.edu (Jamais Cascio) writes...

>>Article 21640 of sci.military:
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>>Path: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!ciss!lawday!military
>>From: CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afnews.pa.af.mil>
>>Subject: Improving the Way Infantrymen Are Equipped
>>Organization: Hq Air Force News Agency/SCC
>>Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:27:21 GMT

>>From CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afnews.pa.af.mil>

>>Improving the Way Infantrymen Are Equipped

>>By Jim Garamone
>>American Forces Information Service

>>     Luke Skywalker, look out.  The image and equipment of American
>>service members will make a quantum leap into the 21st century if
>>equipment now under development is adopted.

>This type of improvement is useful only at the beginning of a war or in small
>scale skirmishes where the high tech side numerically overwhelms the
>opposition.  As a good friend of mine (ex-Navy enlisted, ex-Marine officer,
>ex-merc) once said, "As the war gets longer, the level of technology used gets
>lower."  The new century may have added another technology layer, but it still
>comes down to who can fight better hand-to-hand.

Given that very little fighting today is done hand-to-hand why do you
think this is an important feature?  Today artillery and tanks are two
of the biggest killers on the battlefield.  The infantry system
described will let US soldiers fight better especially in certain types of
terrain, for example places with lots of obstacles like forrests and
cities, where tanks and artillery are not as useful.

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