Its been hard to get a clear picture of what is really happening in Iraq from any media source, which only want to talk about Terrorist attacks and hardly ever show any of the day to day combat that our soldiers are going through.
The little information I have been able to get suggest that our troops are fighting an urban war with little if no new weapons and weapon technologies like the “Land Warrior” system to help them see through the fog of war. Communications and situational awareness are vital to any form of warfare. Even if the Land Warrior system is not 100% percent ready, any improvement on our troops situational awareness has to be better than none.
Further, I think that our government needs to deploy UAV’s in far greater numbers over this Urban battle fields of Iraq and should have systems like C-130 gunship on constant patrol ready to lend air support to our troops.
I have seen little evidence that our military leaders are using our technological superiority to anywhere near its potential in the Urban warfare arena that our troops in Iraq are currently fighting in and I think this situation needs to be corrected so that we can dominate the Urban battlefield landscape like we control all other battle fields landscapes.
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