From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 16:09:21 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> Spike Jones wrote,
> > Mike Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > > Just as Generals always prepare for the last war and not the next war,
> > > people are always most protective of the last persecuted group, not the
> > > next or the current persecuted group
> >
> > Mike if you could see some of the computer sims the generals
> > have running today it would blow your mind. Those guys are
> > thinking 10 years out, 20 years, 50. They are modelling nanotech-
> > based conflicts, and it would not surprise me a bit to learn they
> > are struggling with a concept very close to what we call the
> > singularity. They grok. spike
>
> I must agree with this assessment. From my own experience, the military is
> far beyond what most people even speculate. They have had highly funded
> secret programs working on some technologies for decades before they even
> appeared as speculation in the public sector.
I don't doubt this at all, however there is a signficant distance
between the drawing board and the flight deck. Up until Rummy's recent
military reassessment, our doctrine has been to be able to fight two
regional wars, essentially they want to be able to refight the Gulf War
and have enough reserve to keep North Korea or other hot spot at bay.
All of our procurement has been based upon this doctrine. R&D and
simulations are one thing, then all that gets filtered through the
procurement process by what is the current military doctrine. Refighting
the Gulf War has been the filter we've been under for the last decade,
despite all the great secret research going on. Now that our military
networks have been under day and night attack from communist chinese
forces since the spy plane incident, military doctrine writers under
Rumsfeld are figuring out how to fight that war over. Like Moore's law,
the turnover period is shortening, but its still the same old duck.
Mike Lorrey
"I love it, God help me, I do love it so..."
General George Patton
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