Comments on: Winning (and Losing) the First Wired War

By: paul

paul — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:41:28 +0000

nothin but Police work.

By: John

John — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:59:12 +0000

Gentlemen,
I flew UAV’s in Iraq as a Guardsman and there is the other side of the coin, too much actionable intelligence, laziness or lack of understanding. The Army in particular is very regimented and hierarchical. I am a low rank, but have a Masters in the civilian world and when I found something, or wanted to go the extra mile to catch someone, or knew something about the system that the Officer’s didn’t, I was looked at like, “Who the hell are you,” and disregarded. The military especially with the new technology needs to become more flexible and open to new ideas.

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Sun, 21 May 2006 19:24:10 +0000

Good Morning Angr,
It’s not easy comming up with thoughts how to solve the same stupidity reappearing problems after you express themselves numerious times. But here we go again.
The Military is still locked into the same band withs that won WWII, it’s time to change. The problem is the “selected contractors” such as Harris who have made a bundle off trying to make a system that is backward compatable with digital technonogly.
It is noted that Harris got the contract for the ATC in Afghanistan with a system that is compatable with fifty year old Russian technology, which by the way is also widely used by the Talaban and al Qaeda when they want ot ease drop on the U.S.
The bad guys now hear all the ATC chatter and the number of downed U.S. aircraft in Afghanistan has dramaticaly increased lately.
The reason for this given by the Pentagon is that there are over 500K Radios in the DoD and the cost of total conversion to to much.
Our ground forces are using every thing from the vintage ANPRC 25 (Vietnam Era) to the Harris build ANPRC 119B, it must be noted that both have the same 6km. range at best but they do share the same band with.
The solution is again, scrap the old bandwiths and go digital, amps is no solution to the problem. Maybe then a Platoon Leader in al Sar City on patrol can use an issued transcceiver to communicate with his/her company commander rather the a $29.99 per pair Wal-Mart Motorla Special.
But we all know this won’t happen as long as Harris, and now General Dynamics who has come up to the feed bucket, and other defense Contractors keep hiring former DoD personal both uniformed and Civilian to jobs that pay three times what they were making in public service.
I hope that you are not one of the turnstyle Patroits linning their own pocket with the blood of Americans dieing in Afghanistan and Iraq because of their greed.
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

By: The Angry Man

The Angry Man — Sun, 21 May 2006 05:20:38 +0000

Ok, ok, ok…
I’ll give you guys what you think you know you are talking about…Google the term “asymmetric warfare”. If you are really talented, you can look put “netwar” at the Rand website, read a few of the free publications (written a while ago), then, once again, act like you have a clue about what you are speaking about…talk amongst yourselves now…

By: The Angry Man

The Angry Man — Sun, 21 May 2006 05:17:09 +0000

All right…
“Combat Bob”…do you have anything coherent to say? You can *try* to flame me, but chances are, anything you have to say will come across as so much drivel…however, I think it would be amusing if you tried. Let it rip, you monkey-brained fool!

By: DubhghaillSR

DubhghaillSR — Sat, 20 May 2006 18:41:24 +0000

The Intel/Cmmunications Sciences are still as in VietNam , at the end of a long money chain in Washington D.C.When did we decide as a nation to not attack the perpetraitors of 911 ? USAma is Arab, as are the Wahabiests sect . They attacked us in two distinct Decades , at the World Trade Center. Politics by one Party dictated tied hands of one President,Clinton , and Money seems the issue tied into the Current President and Pentagon effort. SEND Congress and Presidents of War Supplies Corporations to IRAQ , let the reality effect guide their efforts.The attacks on America were not humane , just human. We need not bother being humane in War. That thinking bankrupted Americaalready, and is doing it again. Kill them all , let GOD sort out the mistakes.
Combat Bob-RVN , etc.

By: Gordon Housworth

Gordon Housworth — Sat, 20 May 2006 11:49:47 +0000

Can you provide particulars on the ‘draft Army War College report’ as a Google search does not turn it using the phrases “There is a connectivity gap” and “Information is not reaching the lowest levels.”

By: Adrian Forest

Adrian Forest — Sat, 20 May 2006 02:02:23 +0000

Sounds to me like a simple case of trying to use a system before it’s ready. When the system’s not actually in place on the ground, you can’t expect it to function as advertised.

By: emirsfall

emirsfall — Sat, 20 May 2006 00:10:19 +0000

Trafficgeek has it absolutely right. It’s an example of a rigid hierarchy being torn to pieces by a million small bites from a distributed, decentralized mycelium network.
For more on that subject, check out john robb @
globalguerrillas.typepad.com. In my opinion, he’s the foremost expert on modern insurgencies.

By: Wildcat

Wildcat — Fri, 19 May 2006 19:57:17 +0000

Uh, I meant to say “our side did not fire on the redcoats from behind rocks and trees and fences…”