Gnorts, Vorts! Since I seem to have started this discussion with the comment on the Segway Products and it has gone to well over 100 messages, I felt obligated to seek a conclusion. I find it in this article:
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/07/1866019 What I have discovered is that my initial concepts of how to win the present war are seriously flawed. I say that I must agree with Maj. Gen. Scales (apropos) who offers a nine point solution to our present situation. It's a long article; so, I'll offer this morsel which appears at the end of the article to whet your appetite: "THE EVOLUTION OF WARFARE THE CHEMISTS' WAR The decisive strategic advantage on the World War I battlefield was driven by new applications of chemistry and chemical engineering. Germany, for example, exhausted its supplies of gunpowder nitrates in 1915, but the synthesis of nitrates by German scientists allowed the war to continue for another three years. THE PHYSICISTS' WAR The atomic bomb ended World War II, but exploitation of the electromagnetic spectrum in the form of wireless communications and radar won it for the allies. THE INFORMATION RESEARCHERS' WAR In World War III, intelligence and the ability to fully exploit it allowed the U.S. to defeat the Soviet Union. Information-age concepts of transformation and net-centrism mark the end of this epoch. THE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS' WAR To win World War IV, the military must be culturally knowledgeable enough to thrive in an alien environment. Victory will be defined more in terms of capturing the psycho-cultural rather than the geographical high ground. Understanding and empathy will be important weapons of war."
