A heads up to DT readers out there…
This week is the annual Modern Day Marine Expo at MCB Quantico outside DC. Ward and I will be hitting it today and may do some follow ups later in the week, so stay tuned here for updates and vids and please excuse the delay in posts.
– Christian
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The toll of U.S. servicemen & women killed in Afghanistan reached 1,000 this Friday, a grim milestone that came as Americans back home commemorated their war dead on Memorial Day: a public holiday to remember Americans killed in war with ceremonies at military cemeteries across the country. News that the body count had ticked into four figures came with the death in a roadside bombing of an American serviceman, who was the 32nd U.S. soldier to die in the past month. He is the 430th to be killed in Afghanistan since President Obama took office in January 2009. Last Wednesday, the UKs Ministry of Defence (MOD) confirmed a British Royal Marine from 40 Commando had died from a roadside bomb while on foot patrol in Helmand. Yesterday, the MOD confirmed yet another Royal Marine from the same unit died as the result of a hidden explosive device (also in Helmand). This morning, reports confirm a third Royal Marine in the same area was killed by a roadside device. Their deaths took the number of British troops killed in operations in Afghanistan since the war began to 290. The majority of coalition troops killed in Afghanistan have died as a direct result of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices (RCIEDs) and Suicide Bomb Attacks.
Hopefully, U.S., British & Allied government will accept that as far as IED’s are concerned, a far better plan of action needs to be put in place: methodology that permits the weighing of resource investments in achieving stand-off detection in distance (a desirable defensive measure for roadside IEDs) against those used to achieve standoff detection in time (which enables offensive operations). The former helps, one might say, to identify a single sick patient, but the latter helps to halt the epidemic. RedXDefense allows the military & law enforcement to gain the advantage of being able to work towards the goal of identifying bombers, bomb-makers, and bomb-making facilities before explosive devices can be deployed: a far better option than purely having to react to IED’s already put in place. They will be attacking the problem of explosive threats at source. Correctly integrated into a peacekeeping mission or homeland security operation, you will be able to aim towards a situation where the number of IED’s laid by terrorists & insurgents’ in the first place starts to decrease and the number of successful suicide attacks and terrorist bomb incidents are dramatically reduced. The terrorist or insurgent group will have been attacked at the very heart of their operational & organizational levels.
You might or might not agree that the military should be deployed in various conflict zones but if they have to be, it's only fair that governments protect them to the fullest with the latest technology and consider new concepts that will allow them to succeed in their mission in the safest and most efficient way.
Read the full report at http://www.diia.info 'Shoot the Archer – Not the Arrow'.