General Shinseki's statement on the future of the Army The Army's Vision In the first article General Shinseki's writes about the Interim Armored Vehicle which is the medium tank I spoke of in my previous post. These vehicles will help combine the current light and heavy forces into a medium force, the Brigade Combat Team. A force able to deploy anywhere in the world in 96 hours...
Hmm, the army is already planning on building quicker and lighter tanks as their medium strength weapons platform. I saw that in a brief a few weeks ago. I doubt they will replace this plan with droids. And do not think that tanks are sitting ducks that often. Oh ya, in the article they mentioned that the exo-skeletons could not weight much or be too bulky to hamper movement, but to rather improve movement. The Army After Next main goal is to be highly mobile. As I predicted before, an exoskeleton will probably just be a means to mount a larger weapon then a SAW (Machine gun organic to an infantry squad).
Light = Infantry. Medium = The lighter and faster tank planned. Heavy = Bad Ass M1A2 which can kill most tanks in the world before they can even detect the M1A2.
The problem with a virtual body is that it will never replace the capabilities of an infantry soldier. Throughout history man has tried to win wars from a distance with artillery, bombers, tanks, and cruise missiles. The problem is that to win a war, killing people and blowing up equipment from a distance is not enough. You have to send in the infantry to finish up at the end. Look at Kosovo for example. Yes, our bombing campaign brought them to the peace tables, but now that there is peace in the area American soldiers are inside Kosovo keeping the peace. Without the presence of real live soldiers the war would break out again. And because most of the United States Army's missions are peacekeeping, soldiers are going to have to be onsite. Exoskeletons are just not gonna cut it in the middle of a peacekeeping operation when communication is needed. Another point to ponder: I think that exoskeletons will be used mainly to mount weapon systems that would be too heavy or bulky for a soldier to otherwise carry. And, because an infantry squad only has one heavy weapon member per squad, the saw gunner, every soldier will probably not have an exoskeleton except the one soldier with the heavy weapon platform.
I am just wondering how this online university would pass on the: 1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology http://www.abet.org/ 2. Computer Science Accreditation Board I do think that it is a great idea because there are probably many people like me who would like to learn things not offered at our university or who are not going to college atm. Another point, if there are group projects at the university it would give students a situation similar to how a lot of open source code is written, through email and instant messaging.
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General Shinseki's statement on the future of the Army
The Army's Vision
In the first article General Shinseki's writes about the Interim Armored Vehicle which is the medium tank I spoke of in my previous post. These vehicles will help combine the current light and heavy forces into a medium force, the Brigade Combat Team. A force able to deploy anywhere in the world in 96 hours...
Hmm, the army is already planning on building quicker and lighter tanks as their medium strength weapons platform. I saw that in a brief a few weeks ago. I doubt they will replace this plan with droids. And do not think that tanks are sitting ducks that often. Oh ya, in the article they mentioned that the exo-skeletons could not weight much or be too bulky to hamper movement, but to rather improve movement. The Army After Next main goal is to be highly mobile. As I predicted before, an exoskeleton will probably just be a means to mount a larger weapon then a SAW (Machine gun organic to an infantry squad).
Light = Infantry.
Medium = The lighter and faster tank planned.
Heavy = Bad Ass M1A2 which can kill most tanks in the world before they can even detect the M1A2.
The problem with a virtual body is that it will never replace the capabilities of an infantry soldier. Throughout history man has tried to win wars from a distance with artillery, bombers, tanks, and cruise missiles. The problem is that to win a war, killing people and blowing up equipment from a distance is not enough. You have to send in the infantry to finish up at the end. Look at Kosovo for example. Yes, our bombing campaign brought them to the peace tables, but now that there is peace in the area American soldiers are inside Kosovo keeping the peace. Without the presence of real live soldiers the war would break out again. And because most of the United States Army's missions are peacekeeping, soldiers are going to have to be onsite. Exoskeletons are just not gonna cut it in the middle of a peacekeeping operation when communication is needed. Another point to ponder: I think that exoskeletons will be used mainly to mount weapon systems that would be too heavy or bulky for a soldier to otherwise carry. And, because an infantry squad only has one heavy weapon member per squad, the saw gunner, every soldier will probably not have an exoskeleton except the one soldier with the heavy weapon platform.
I am just wondering how this online university would pass on the: 1. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology http://www.abet.org/ 2. Computer Science Accreditation Board I do think that it is a great idea because there are probably many people like me who would like to learn things not offered at our university or who are not going to college atm. Another point, if there are group projects at the university it would give students a situation similar to how a lot of open source code is written, through email and instant messaging.