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Still no improvement on the search for that unknown Giordano male model I’m fascinated with. And now R decides to concern herself (and other people) about certain issues that are affecting and may affect us. Or it could be that I just find the following updates in the real world amusing and decides to share it for my unknown or non-existent audience. And this provides time for R to get back into what is happening with the rest of the citizens of this civilization.
All those high-tech military equipments and related paraphernalia you see in the movies are actually being used and would be undergoing improvements that rival Transformers that could work for us, our government-and it could happen very soon and even sooner than you think. In the case of the US however, futuristic military equipment could be held back due to budget cuts. Yes, even the economic crisis is affecting the defense sector of the US.
The US government had a program for the army where over 90 billion dollars were allotted to upgrade the military with manned and unmanned vehicles that make use of programs that explored concepts of nano-technology and exo-skeletons (told you it’s going to be Transformer-ish). This would enable the military to have a highly mobile fighting force that would use superior technology and communication to have an ‘edge’ in battle and obviously have more gains. Other than these vehicles, the program also includes upgrades on artillery and high tech army suits. Uh, Starship Troopers and military science fiction to life? But anyway, the $90 billion just covers the vehicle. What about the artillery and the ‘futuristic’ suits? So basically the expenses sky rocketed and financers are backing out. And the budget cut I’m saying earlier would be implemented on this said program. Since the military would now be left with a slowdown in technological upgrades which I’m sure are necessary for warfare (oh the US definitely prides itself on this one), they would have to adapt to ongoing changes-with this one of the many upcoming ones for sure.
SOURCE: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/04/gates-rips-hear.html
What is happening to war these days? Is it still called the ‘War on Terror’? Or is it now the War on something else? Personally I think the cut is reasonable, despite some crazed military authorities going bonkers on this delay of 'plans' (and there could be some conspiracy behind all this). Funding on high-tech military equipment and what knot is not necessarily bad but we always seem to miss the point of the human resource in this. I also believe high-tech surveillance or whatever doesn’t replace the value of an operative in the field. Do you think technology would provide that inherent advantage necessary to get enemy forces? Why do we fight now anyway? The business behind war is beyond me. I have this strange concern on how to do I explain to my kid (in the far future) and their kids about all this when the soon-to-be robot overlords finally exist. And now I’m imagining the representatives of US, Russia and China conversing on that blessed round table in the War Room 8D And they're actually having those dealings.
And also, I would still like to see how the world and everything else comes about in the next 50 years regarding this issue. Would it be Code Geass-ish or Gundam 00-ish? Would everything else be utopian or dystopian? Would the system collapse and communism rises again? Is the Philippines going to be in that ‘semi-periphery’ stage in this arena? One world government and is its really, really exo-politics (and by that time I would have married Matt for sure and ask him to educate me on his knowledge on exo-political issues)?
All those high-tech military equipments and related paraphernalia you see in the movies are actually being used and would be undergoing improvements that rival Transformers that could work for us, our government-and it could happen very soon and even sooner than you think. In the case of the US however, futuristic military equipment could be held back due to budget cuts. Yes, even the economic crisis is affecting the defense sector of the US.
The US government had a program for the army where over 90 billion dollars were allotted to upgrade the military with manned and unmanned vehicles that make use of programs that explored concepts of nano-technology and exo-skeletons (told you it’s going to be Transformer-ish). This would enable the military to have a highly mobile fighting force that would use superior technology and communication to have an ‘edge’ in battle and obviously have more gains. Other than these vehicles, the program also includes upgrades on artillery and high tech army suits. Uh, Starship Troopers and military science fiction to life? But anyway, the $90 billion just covers the vehicle. What about the artillery and the ‘futuristic’ suits? So basically the expenses sky rocketed and financers are backing out. And the budget cut I’m saying earlier would be implemented on this said program. Since the military would now be left with a slowdown in technological upgrades which I’m sure are necessary for warfare (oh the US definitely prides itself on this one), they would have to adapt to ongoing changes-with this one of the many upcoming ones for sure.
SOURCE: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/04/gates-rips-hear.html
What is happening to war these days? Is it still called the ‘War on Terror’? Or is it now the War on something else? Personally I think the cut is reasonable, despite some crazed military authorities going bonkers on this delay of 'plans' (and there could be some conspiracy behind all this). Funding on high-tech military equipment and what knot is not necessarily bad but we always seem to miss the point of the human resource in this. I also believe high-tech surveillance or whatever doesn’t replace the value of an operative in the field. Do you think technology would provide that inherent advantage necessary to get enemy forces? Why do we fight now anyway? The business behind war is beyond me. I have this strange concern on how to do I explain to my kid (in the far future) and their kids about all this when the soon-to-be robot overlords finally exist. And now I’m imagining the representatives of US, Russia and China conversing on that blessed round table in the War Room 8D And they're actually having those dealings.
And also, I would still like to see how the world and everything else comes about in the next 50 years regarding this issue. Would it be Code Geass-ish or Gundam 00-ish? Would everything else be utopian or dystopian? Would the system collapse and communism rises again? Is the Philippines going to be in that ‘semi-periphery’ stage in this arena? One world government and is its really, really exo-politics (and by that time I would have married Matt for sure and ask him to educate me on his knowledge on exo-political issues)?