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To: McNabb Brothers who wrote (32)	9/18/2001 8:59:16 AM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225

Check this out: fas.org (Thanks to HawkMoon on the War thread.)

To: McNabb Brothers who wrote (32)	9/19/2001 8:08:00 PM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 225

Yes, our military is far more advanced today than it was 10 years ago in the Gulf War. I mean think about it. How much more advanced is your home, office and even your person than it was 10 years ago? School kids carry Palm Pilots. What do you think our soldiers will be carrying? Now weapons, from what I have read, are mostly standard. . . no Star Wars LightSavers, Phasers or Vulcan Death Grips. . or whatever you call it. In fact, the Remington 870 shotgun is still standard equipment for the Army. . . aside from automatic and semi-automatic weapons. And yes, we are equipped with night vision, motion detecting/infrared, heat seeking equipment. . .even radar/scanner type systems which calculate trajectory and "sees" the original location of incoming fire. And an army can be defined by its communications. The better you can coordinate your troops on the fly, the better chance a complicated strategy has of working. So you can bet that communications are superb. And don't forget Global Positioning Satellites capable of pinpointing down to a single square foot [as I am told]. I am more concerned about geological thermal scanners being tuned to see into tunnels and caves. I believe these will be most helpful in finding the enemy. Equipping small unmanned recon crafts with such equipment. . . flying low and slow in the dark . . . could reveal many hideouts over time. Such crafts can out-maneuver any anti-aircraft fire. . . I saw one once, that blew my mind as it scrambled through the air as fast and as complex a course as you can draw in the air in front of you. But the most important thing by a long shot is intelligence. We need to crack their intelligence so that we may follow the trail precisely to its origin. There is no other way of rooting out the terrorist cells. However, the more I read about Bin Laden, the more difficult this operation gets. They have cells in over 60 different countries. And since they are quite mobile, that number could quickly double. I read where the Sudan and Afghan governments have been reissuing passports and Identification papers from dead Arabs there. Now how does an army. . . ANY army fight an enemy who moves freely throughout 60 different countries? Figure that out and you will have only scratched the surface of the sensitivity and the challenge of this important operation. Rande Is