I think that if the Military Commanders need to see whats going on they should get out of their air conditioned rooms and walk with their soldiers onto the battlefield, lead from the front.
That's the point. The helos can be replaced, lives can't. No reason why surviellance work has to be done putting lives at risk if there's another option available.
The "Liberals" don't really control the budget, now do they? The White House presents it and Congress passes it. If the Army's budget is being cut, well it's the President and his staff who are cutting it. Like Harry Truman used to say: "The buck stops here . . ."
I am happy that these new technologies are starting to come on line. I know these systems need the time we have spent in Iraq to evolve depending on how we have reacted to the enemy and what is necessary to answer how the insurgency has been presenting itself to us which actually defines the direction of the industry to address their tactics.
It seems that their methods have defined themselves to us which will help us greatly when we eventually have to go into Iran and the mountains of Pakistan to take out such entities as the Iranian moral police and other despotic entities who murder children for being happy and those who run around in their underpants claiming they were sent by god.
Of course we won't be as kind to them as we have been with the Iraqi insurgency and want to thank those insurgents who have thrown away their lives so we can develop weapons that will kill more of them faster and in greater numbers which in turn will make our stays much shorter saving even a greater percentage of Allied troops when we blast the living crap out of them.
I can't wait to see how we will eventually destroy the last vestiges of the old barbaric world that seems to have been lingering around since before the Ottoman Empire. Actually I believe these are the last of the Neanderthal people who still hunt for food. Cleaning the planet from this type of pond scum does take a lot of time. Eventually the Middle East will be democratic and the people over there will be free.
Let me see if I can understand this. The army is short ground personnel and has to have the Air Force provide airman to fill in for some missions. The army will need to use more of their troops to operate/man these a/c.The army doesn't want the air force to be the overall command /coordinator for unmanned a/c. So typical.....
