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>From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
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...

>>From: CMSgt Mike Bergman <bergman@afnews.pa.af.mil>
>>Subject: Improving the Way Infantrymen Are Equipped

>>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.


I must have missed the hand-to-hand combat that took place in Kuwait/Iraq.
Where/when did it occur?




