Dude, I had a action figure in the 80s like this; of course at that time they were red and we called them the Crimson Guard.

Ah yes, they were indeed ‘teh r0x0r’. As Cobra Commander himself once said, “They just don’t make terrorists like they used to”. That being said, the black-clad figure actually seems like nearly an excact copy of the soldiers you encounter in FEAR

Nevertheless, I’m not even a soldier and I’d rather see the gov/dod spend less time squandering huge sums of cash on toys to show off to the media and instead spend it on actually helping our guys out. This course of action didn’t work for Germany (never seen Godwin’s law applied like that before), so unless the DoD is actually given an increase of cash (can anyone really see that happening now), this doesn’t really seem like the best way to be spending the tax dollars.

This type of concept super-soldier is hardly new; I even remember very similar ideas being showcased in a 1996 episode of Brute Force – again, only a ‘few years away’ from being implemented. Ho ho ho.

And let’s not knock the current crop of officers too much; at the end of the day they’re limited to what they can do by those certain suited people on capitol hill..

One Angry Christian, I think that if it becomes time to rebel against the government, large portions of the military will revolt as well.

Eric12470210 on January 5, 2007 at 4:40 PM

I think you’re wrong about that. The public consensus on religious movements is becoming more and more negative. Granted right now we’re overwhelmingly “Christian”, but eventually the media hype that turns out stuff like Peter Jennings “Special” on Paul and Christ that basically paints Christianity to be a farce and anyone who believes in Christs deity as an idiot or insanely delusional, and tons of movies that paint Christians as evil conspirators trying to oppress everyone.

Ever see Ultra Violet? Ever notice that the “bad guys” fortress is a … giant cross? That movie sucked. I loved the movie V for vendetta, but did you notice that the badges the bad guys were carrying were two crosses and that the “evil rulers” were ultra religious? Did you ever notice that any religious character put in a film not made by a Christian production company or by … Mel Gibson is a closet pedophile, or has some other serious mental issue?

Hollywood is to Christians from my perspective as Iran’s media is to the Jewish religion.

Eventually this constant barrage of hype will take a toll on those who hear it, and it’s already showing in most of the larger cities. Give it time … Give it time.

What they sew in the media we will eventually reap.

OAC and Eric, you might want to check out the novel A State of Disobedience by Tom Kratman. (Published by Baen Books.) It’s set in the near future, and is about what the next American Revolution might look like. Many of the problems and players will look awfully familiar.

thanks. I’ll take a look at it. I spend so much time following news on here I don’t get much time to read fiction, but … I do enjoy it.

Dogs, I tried to wait my turn to post again but, gee whiz, it’s been almost 24 hours and I just can’t sit on this any longer. Enjoy:Space.com profiles U.S. military future techAllahpundit Picture a man staring glassy-eyed at his…

FYI, Baen Books has built quite the stable of military science fiction authors, for those of you who are military geeks like me. I read everything I can get my hands on from guys like David Drake and John Ringo. And Ringo in particular is on the right side of things historically and politically, not to mention being a veteran and damn entertaining author.

We’re not there yet, but consider the public atmosphere towards Christians at this moment and how many people are ok with being public about their hatred for such a non violent group that (even if annoying at times with their hard core beliefs) is almost entirely law abiding. In fact being law abiding is bred into our doctrine.

I fear for the day when the socialists shrill becomes more than a congressional majority and becomes a totalitarian rule wielding the mightiest military the world has ever seen.

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nuff said.

Someone should re-invent the backbone.”

hillbillyjim on January 5, 2007 at 1:59 AM

Unfortunate but true.

What’s interesting is that as we continue to develop “breakout” technology – weapons so advanced that in a conventional context nobody can contest the field against us – our opponents face few options other than guerilla-style warfare or nuclear warfare.

Can’t contest the skies against F-22s? Nuke the airfields that they fly from.

Can’t stand toe-to-toe in a army-versus-army fight against American Super Soldiers? Throw away your uniforms, melt away behind the civilians and take remote-control pot-shots at them with IEDs until the American public cries, “No Mas!”

Asymmetrical Warfare, in a nutshell. The irony of it all is that the more precise and “surgical” we become with our capabilities, the more our real and prospective enemies have to resort in desperation to crude measures in an attempt to avoid our technology.

Bottom line, though, I still like what John Lehman had to say after we shot down Libyan SU-7s with our F-14s back in the 80s:

“The ‘high-low’ technology mix works best when we have the ‘high’ and the enemies of freedom have the ‘low.’”

There are a lot of hurdles that this gear will need to overcome. First, the military has to get the funding for it, then the troops need to be taught how to use and maintain it. It will significantly increase a soldier’s capabilities (visions of a grunt hand-carrying a M2 .50 caliber machine gun or a Mark 19 full-auto grenade launcher dancing in my head), but when it breaks down-and that’s “when” not “if,” he will be worse than useless. And spare parts are all too often in short supply, in a war zone or not.

My take is that it is really neat stuff, but I am not looking for our soldiers to be wearing powered exoskeletons into battle in my lifetime. I could be wrong, though.

However, as cool as this is …

Alden Pyle on January 5, 2007 at 10:37 AM

… is right.

We need more than gadgets, we need real leaders and we need the will to do what’s necessary. Cool as these proposed suits are (and they are cool to be sure), they won’t mean a thing without the stuff of which Alden writes.

We don’t need silly gizmo costumes damnit, what we need are leaders like William Tecumseh Sherman, Chesty Puller and George Patton, men with clear visions, true conviction and the nads to make it happen.

Alden Pyle on January 5, 2007 at 10:37 AM

Sorry Pyle, they’re all gone. We only have beret sporters these days….

We should be dropping daisy cutters and slinging sidewinders off of global hawks instead of having our Marines walk around as human target of opportunity in the tin can, black water alleys of third world slums.

We can’t even muster up enough testicular fortitude to use conventional small arms to stave off armed invaders on our OWN borders, who really believes we’ll ever project overwhelming force on an enemy overseas and risk the tounge lashing of the UN and Dhimmi lovers for unproportional retaliation.

We don’t need silly gizmo costumes damnit, what we need are leaders like William Tecumseh Sherman, Chesty Puller and George Patton, men with clear visions, true conviction and the nads to make it happen.

Noelle was purchased for $20,000 from Miami-based Gaumard Scientific Co. Inc. in the United States. She was manufactured in 2000 and over 400 units have been sold in the United States.

lol….I watched that movie last night.

Better than what I watched last night. But what I watched might be more on-topic -anyone remember Robot Jox? War has been outlawed, so instead one person from each side straps themselves into a giant robot and they battle is out to see who wins the war.

the ability to see through walls

Many, many uses for this new technology.

And who needs a machine gun, give them the phasors already!

And if you think that the uniform looks cool and dangerous right now, just wait until Michelle models one for you (or KP, or MKH, or Bethany….). Wait. Stop. Can’t. Continue.

CyberCipher on January 4, 2007 at 10:40 PM

Okay, I’ve now changed my opinion on both the draft and the deployment of women in the infantry…

Though I also predict that there will not be a need to draft of male soldiers if the female troopers look like this.