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An anonymous reader writes "The US military has devised a way to ensure its troops in battle need never go hungry - with dried food that can be rehydrated using dirty water or urine. Bleh, but lightweight bleh." The original New Scientist story is available too.
Host your self on a computer, encase that computer in neutron star armor. No need for sex, water, food. Just plug in an antimatter energy pellet. That is a real army of one.
-I am an elective eunuch.
If you believe most of the morons in the US military are "trained killing machines", you are seriously naive. (Unless your "some thousand" is meant to reduce the numbers to something reasonable.)
Most of these idiots have trouble murdering civilians in Iraq.
Only the Marines and the various Special Forces units have any significant training at all.
And they're still getting their asses kicked by the resistance in Iraq.
And the real mass resistance hasn't even started yet. On the Shia side, Sistani has not yet issued his fatwa. On the Sunni side, a recent interview with the sheikh in charge of one of the tribes - a two-million strong tribe - stated, "This isn't a resistance. We will make Vietnam look like a picnic." Within the next 6-12 months - unless Bush pulls them out to go to North Korea (where the Pentagon estimates fifty thousand dead in the first ninety days) - the Iraqis are going to DESTROY the US military forces in Iraq. The US forces will be forced to flee the country hanging from helicopter rails a la Vietnam (unless Sistani allows them a truce to evacuate) and leave behind them billions in US equipment which I'm sure the US troops will see again, used against them.
This will be the greatest military defeat in US history. And the results will be worse than the Vietnam defeat. It will be decades before the US military can regain its standing, just as it was twenty years and Gulf War I before the US could regain its standing after Vietnam.
The incompetence, stupidity, brutality and poor training and doctrine that led to this massive defeat will be analyzed for decades.
It's over for the US military.
And I couldn't care less except to laugh my ass off. This is nature's way of eliminating the stupid.
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You're an idiot.
Get your news from someplace other than Fox.
The only reason US troops aren't dying by the dozens in Iraq is because they're hunkered down in bunkers and have given up patrolling the hot spots because they were getting their asses handed to them.
Even the MARINES are bunkered down now!
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