[Amerigomag]

it is power in the hands of individual troops.

You bet. Todays' hot topics were the rumored DARPA need for autonomus transportation platforms for individual troops. Sort of like rocketman or a souped up Alice. I guess the experience gained in Operation Anaconda proved a need to supply individual ground troops with supplemental mobility devices for sustained, high altitude, combat patrols.

Maybe they'll have turbocharged, silenced, Honda Trail 90's on their next outing into the Hindu Kush.

[LarryLied]

Like to hear what Col David Hackworth has to say about this. For years he has been complaining, with justification, that expensive weapon systems were being funded rather than properly training and equipping the grunt on the ground.