Friday, June 6, 2008

How the War In Iraq And Afghanistan Is Fought -- A Look Inside The Air Force's Control Center For Iraq And Afghanistan

From U.S. News And World Report:

Far from the physical battlefields, analysts and targeters hunt the enemy and initiate airstrikes

COMBINED AIR AND SPACE OPERATIONS CENTER, MIDDLE EAST—As the grainy intelligence video unfolds, one of Iraq's many jauntily decorated trucks rolls to a stop carrying passengers who are, according to U.S. military officials, insurgents from outside of Baghdad. An unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, has detected infrared signals—traces of heat—on the antiaircraft artillery gun mounted on the flatbed, which suggests that it has been recently fired.

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My Comment: Predators, satellites, GPS, laser guided missiles, etc. .... the future battlefield will be done by people who cannot be shot at, wounded, or kill. For Islamic militants in Iraq or Afghanistan, I am sure that the thought that is going through their minds right now is ..... how can you fight an enemy like that.

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