This is the beginning of a new infantry capability. Armor and weapon weights and sizes change. Physical endurance does as well.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
NREC News & Updates
The Crusher was introduced last year. This article speaks of a new generation that will allow testers to learn more about autonomous operations and when weapons of this type would fit into future combat systems.
Technorati Tags: crusher,FCS,UGV,Carniegie Mellon,Tardec,APD,Robotic Vehicle Control Architecture.RVCA
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Home - Windows Live Spaces
I am getting better with the technical items in my life all the time. The cell phone has to be the big change this fall. I have a blue tooth device. Now, I walk around the house doing my tasks while I tie up my children unmercifully. It is great. The same thing is true for long trips in the car. No more setting there watching the white line. Now I can talk for hours on any subject with anyone who picks up the phone,. I do learn lots this way. I also keep up with my children better.
<p> Today, I had a deep desire to have a camera on the phone as I was walking around though. Then people could see what I was looking at. Wow, that would be great. </p><p>cnn had an article
The video shows that this thing is arriving. The uses are endless. Apparently, the awkward movements are eliminated.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Lazaro Cardenas and North American Trade
Port
Lázaro Cárdenas is home to a deep-water seaport that handles container, dry bulk, and liquid cargo. The port handled 160,000 TEU in 2005 but is expanding to a capacity of 2.2 million TEU annually. Cargo is moved to and from the port by road and rail equally, with rail service provided exclusively by Kansas City Southern Railway. The port is expected to become a major container facility due to congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and its relative proximity to major cities such as Chicago, Kansas City, and Houston. However, if a proposed port with the backing of the Mexican president at Punta Colonet is built, goods coming to fast growing Arizona and Nevada could bypass the congested Los Angeles region.
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Tags: Lazaro Cardenas, Nafta Highway, NAU, Kansas City Southern Railway
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Net Centric Warfare as a Guiding Theory is Over
America's military policy is in disarray, but not for the reason most people think. For the first time since around 1950, there is no coherent theoretical framework for thinking about how to shape our armed forces for current and future threats. This fact presents both a danger and an opportunity. The danger is that we will either fail to develop one and therefore drift aimlessly at a troubled time, or that we will reach back to some of the tattered remnants of the theories that guided military policy until 2007. But we now have the opportunity for a serious discussion about the shape of the world today and its likely shape tomorrow.
Kegan writes what may be the death knell of 'Military Transformation' and Net-centric Warfare.
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Tags: Net-centric Warfare, Military Transformation, Rumsfeld, Gates
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Blackwater evades taxes
Blackwater, like Hitler’s Brown Shirts, is an alternate army. We should all pay attention and be aware that now more of our tax dollars are paid out to private armies (by the state department,) with tax breaks and no oversight while representing our country, than to our own soldiers.
We now have private armies that are beholden to their companies before being beholden to the good of the people. They also are experiencing being above the law. The worst thing that happens to them for murdering innocent people is that they get fired after earning six figures a year.
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I believe that private militaries are a great danger to this country. They train people to operate outside of the law and enable anyone with enough money to carryout military operations and kill people.
Tags: Blackwater, private military
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