Headline Dec22,2012/

''DON'T ARGUE ABOUT GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

JOIN IT: !WOW!"

It is truly a great and remarkable achievement to have a vast network of computer simulators installed almost the world over. Now what G would that be 7 or 8? Ha Ha Ha! There are simulators for tanks, battle command vehicles, helicopters, Jet fighters, and bombers. There are even ''walk-thru'' environments for infantry. Now you can understand where the technology and wireless technology is coming from.


Hundreds of soldiers can fight within these computer-generated spaces by simply plugging into the network. Hook this network up to the sensor system used for monitoring the Force-ob-Force laser-tag-training, and real vehicles can fight alongside simulators. That'show they manage Advance Firefighting Experiment. They track the activities of real tanks and convert them into 3-D graphics. Every virtual object has a virtual doppelgange, and every virtual object appears on the screens of the real high-tech fighting vehicles.


Anything can be simulated. Weather, Terrain, enemy tactics. The simulations are so accurate that the soldiers can't tell the difference between simulation and reality. The basic philosophy is that automation speeds things up. The faster you win the war the better.


History at times goes berserk. And it does that when irony and tragedy come together. The world at large is of a firm opinion that War is of a vital importance to technology: it dramatically accelerates its development
The Great World Wars kicked the world headfirst into the military-industrial age.
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As you read this, a large, sleek, silver-gray aircraft known as The Predator is circling dutifully above the target landscape. It's a reconnaissance aircraft fitted top-level radar, digital video and still picture cameras. Its feeding its radar and video back to the Operations via a satellite.The plane has no windows and no cockpit. There are no crew on board.

Back at a base in Albania, the Pilot and the Navigator sit facing screens in comfortable swivel chairs, directing the movements of the remote controlled aircraft with joy sticks.
This is the long-distance war making technology in action.


The future of war is a blip on the screen, an icon to engage with, an image generated in the memory of the microprocessor. The enemy is just an image. You get the guns ''hot'' and press fire. The image fades away into smithereens.


In his autobiography Professor J.K.Galbraith mentions a conversation he had with Professor Henry A Kissinger: ''To understand the US and Soviet relations you have to understand the Economics of the Defense Equipment Manufacturers and Suppliers,''


Inventions and Re-inventions and rationalizations and P.R. game plans will continue. And then, and then, everybody will position himself for the end. Everybody cheers and the slogan goes up: ''All but war is simulation.'


Respectful dedication to the great memory of Professor Dr J.K.Galbraith. ''A Life in our Times''.


Good Night & God Bless!

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