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Special New Capabilities of the US Military?

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The whole interview is interesting, but in particular starting at minute 8:00, he mentions a new capability of the US Military that is another tier on par with the bullet, and the tank..

what could it be?

Lasers? Exo-skeletons?

 
You are thinking far too small scale!

SHARKS! With lasers on their heads!
TREADMILLS! That can launch planes!
PLUTO! A planet that can shift into a mere object!
 
Goggles that allow a soldier to be placed in a virtual world where he is watching porn but in reality is choking and stabbing his enemies to death.
 
He was discussing it in context with knowing how to track down Al Queda in Iraq leaders so it wasn't necessarily a weapon but rather an intellegence breakthrough he was alluding to.
 
They developed a pill to give to all soldiers making their penis grow a few inches, because you know the bigger a mans penis is the easier it is to make enemies run in fear from their massive raging boner.
 
Man, this sounds cool for us, but not so much for the enemy.

(CBS) But beyond all of that, Woodward reports, for the first time, that there is a secret behind the success of the surge: a sophisticated and lethal special operations program.

"This is very sensitive and very top secret, but there are secret operational capabilities that have been developed by the military to locate, target, and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq, insurgent leaders, renegade militia leaders. That is one of the true breakthroughs," Woodward told Pelley.

"But what are we talking about here? It's some kind of surveillance? Some kind of targeted way of taking out just the people that you're looking for? The leadership of the enemy?" Pelley asked.

"I'd love to go through the details, but I'm not going to," Woodward replied.

The details, Woodward says, would compromise the program.

"For a reporter, you don?t allow much," Pelley remarked.

"Well no, it?s with reluctance. From what I know about it, it's one of those things that go back to any war, World War I, World War II, the role of the tank, and the airplane. And it is the stuff of which military novels are written," Woodward said.

"Do you mean to say that this special capability is such an advance in military technique and technology that it reminds you of the advent of the tank and the airplane?" Pelley asked.

"Yeah," Woodward said. "If you were an al Qaeda leader or part of the insurgency in Iraq, or one of these renegade militias, and you knew about what they were able to do, you'd get your ass outta town."
 
Originally posted by: TruePaige
You are thinking far too small scale!

SHARKS! With lasers on their heads!
TREADMILLS! That can launch planes!
PLUTO! A planet that can shift into a mere object!
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Maybe some radical advancement in signals intelligence that probably won't see the light of day for a couple decades.

A nice orbital kinetic bombardment system to go along with that would be handy.
 
David Petraeus is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

*twitch*
 
I actually caught part of the interview on 60 minutes.

Am I the only one that is extremely skeptical? Seems more like its meant to spread fear through our enemies so that they become so paranoid that they effectively destroy their own organizations. Then again, maybe its just Enemy of the State type of surveillance. I will continue to remain so until they have something worthwhile on Bin Laden.

He also seemed to be making special emphasis on the Iraqi leader, saying that they know every word that he says (he partly retracts that and says some people say its impossible to know every word, but that they know almost everything).
 
Originally posted by: K1052
Maybe some radical advancement in signals intelligence that probably won't see the light of day for a couple decades.

A nice orbital kinetic bombardment system to go along with that would be handy.
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With the NASA budget cuts, they have been reduced to giving an astronaut on the space station a bucket of rocks to drop.
 
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