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Predator drones
New breed of soldier
Three hundred years ago I believe that although money and training of course helped in combat the difference between elite troops and regular kinda-trained troops was not as severe as it is today. In many cases a group of 50 elite men would still stand to have a pretty nasty time with 200 regular joes armed with swords and not a heck of a lot of training. 150 years ago the difference was a bit more significant, but still not terrible. You still had musket vs. musket even if a well trained army would have made better use of it. Now things are more glaring. The Afghani fighters vs a fully modernized army is not really very fun for them at all.
It's true there has not been a major army clash between taliban and coalition military, but what have they been able to do against air power? Absolutely nothing. I have no doubt that 1000 marines could quite easily hold off their position against 10X as many taliban.
In twenty years I bet that instead of air to air combat the air force will have more and more unmanned planes. Now they have the predator armed with some hellfire missiles. In twenty years (or less) I'm sure that the air force will begin introducing fully capable fighters or bombers, totally unmanned. Not only would such a plane be more powerful (able to undergo insane G forces), but you could carelessly throw them into high-risk areas (only lose money). How would an enemy fighter pilot feel going against a small, highly maneuvarable machine? His morale would suck. Even if he managed to take it out he doesn't get any satisfaction and taking somebody out.
Then you take a lot at the new crazy rifles that the army is looking at now (no link) - these things have a computer built in and wicked communications to fully orchestrate a group of soliders together. The gap between the rich and poor countries in warfar will become larger and larger. You have only to look at the gulf war for an example of how gross the differences in capabilities are between a rich and not as rich country.
New breed of soldier
Three hundred years ago I believe that although money and training of course helped in combat the difference between elite troops and regular kinda-trained troops was not as severe as it is today. In many cases a group of 50 elite men would still stand to have a pretty nasty time with 200 regular joes armed with swords and not a heck of a lot of training. 150 years ago the difference was a bit more significant, but still not terrible. You still had musket vs. musket even if a well trained army would have made better use of it. Now things are more glaring. The Afghani fighters vs a fully modernized army is not really very fun for them at all.
It's true there has not been a major army clash between taliban and coalition military, but what have they been able to do against air power? Absolutely nothing. I have no doubt that 1000 marines could quite easily hold off their position against 10X as many taliban.
In twenty years I bet that instead of air to air combat the air force will have more and more unmanned planes. Now they have the predator armed with some hellfire missiles. In twenty years (or less) I'm sure that the air force will begin introducing fully capable fighters or bombers, totally unmanned. Not only would such a plane be more powerful (able to undergo insane G forces), but you could carelessly throw them into high-risk areas (only lose money). How would an enemy fighter pilot feel going against a small, highly maneuvarable machine? His morale would suck. Even if he managed to take it out he doesn't get any satisfaction and taking somebody out.
Then you take a lot at the new crazy rifles that the army is looking at now (no link) - these things have a computer built in and wicked communications to fully orchestrate a group of soliders together. The gap between the rich and poor countries in warfar will become larger and larger. You have only to look at the gulf war for an example of how gross the differences in capabilities are between a rich and not as rich country.
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