[Vidalia]

...infantry battlefield...?

Hate to say it, but these goodies are becoming so technical that even with special courses, only a few will be able to use them to their fullest extent.

Any SOG would take a few weeks to fully acclimate the new system, but general infantry?

After watching a few of the programs on History or Discovery or A&E, and watching all the moaning and groaning and dysfunction of the grunts in basic, be it Marines or Army, it is obvious that the technology has out-paced the soldier, and that is sad and dangerous.

[dcwusmc]

More than dangerous... horrendous. This new Mattel toy would never have lasted in the jungles of Vietnam... nor would the new "combat uniforms" the army wants... Give me a few good Marines, camies, M-16s maybe; M-1 Garands for sure, and I can take any objective you want taken. We can survive in any terrain and under any conditions you like... this buck rogers stuff is so much useless crapola...

[Crazymonarch]

Agreed to some extent the movies reflect the future for example the new camo suit with thousands of translucent scales was as a result of a General watching the movie Predator and saying 'I want one',tendancy is to have the squaddies as sort of extensions of a video game,perhaps eventually like extensions from a cpu,this does two things 1.make headquarters or the op centre a major target and 2.hastens the development of these sorts of toys...after which you need Sun Tzu not Bill Gates.