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How Technology Failed in Iraq
synthespian writes "US troops in Iraq were supposed to have a clear superiority in the battlefield because of sensors and networking devices such as aircraft- and satellite-mounted motion sensors, heat detectors, as well as image and communications eavesdroppers. On April 3, 2003, the task to take over a key Euphrates River bridge about 30 kilometers southwest of Baghdad turned into a bloody hell as 'between 25 and 30 tanks, plus 70 to 80 armored personnel carriers, artillery, and between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi soldiers coming from three directions. This mass of firepower and soldiers attacked a U.S. force of 1,000 soldiers supported by just 30 tanks and 14 Bradley fighting vehicles. (...) "'We got nothing until they slammed into us"''(...). Read more about this story and the troubles and challenges the US military is experiencing in networking troops from Technology Review."
I love tanks
Sometimes I like to like have sex with God
Sometimes I like to like have sex with myself
Sometimes I like to like have sex with a beautiful woman
You, are a dream
You, are an illusion
it's called numbers people.
a few US soldiers with aluminum hats and super duper uber-guns couldn't win a fight against 10,000 naked men.
Our main problem is the fact that we have dealings with the monkeys.
We should return to isolationism... the people of the middle east have no value.
Well, it's not funny, they're called ExtremeGoatse!, their homepage is goat.cx, they have goatse ASCII art in journal, and yet, the comment is positive.
If you don't know what it is, goatse is an offending pic, do NOT visit goat.cx, check out Wikipedia instead.
Only on Leftie Slashdot would this not be moderated dominately offtopic. This has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
But no, you people can't seem to pass up any opportunity to pimp your agenda.
I personally would have moderated it as offtopic, but I agree with flamebait.
Whether or not we should have gone over there has *nothing* to do with how or why technology failed. The original poster, in the subject and first sentence blatantly tossed away the topic and started into a tirade about how we shouldn't have gone into Iraq.
For that matter, none of your post has anything to do with the topic either.
By the way, it was printed in light grey (rather hard to distinguish from the colour of the cable) with Apple's touch (i.e. does not seem to be something done by OEM at all) and less than 1mm tall.