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Cash-strapped and somewhat adrift in terms of missions, the U.S. Army is in the midst of an existential crisis. Once ballooning in budget and size, the Army now says it wants to be "a smaller, more lethal, deployable, and agile force." And it's going to need robots to do it right.
General Robert Cone, head of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, spoke about the future of the service at the Army Aviation Symposium last week. Faced with sequestration cuts, the Army is thinking about cutting the size of a brigade from 4,000 to 3,000 soldiers. It would fill the gap with robots and other unmanned systems.
Reports indicate that the Army will shrink from its current size of 540,000 soldiers to just 420,000 in the next five years. But replacing all those soldiers with drones won't be an easy task. After its finally developed the right technology—and you know DARPA's working hard on it—then the Army has the terrible task of convincing the public that it's okay to kill people with robots. Of course, we've been doing that for years, though, haven't we?
13th Zodiac
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Yes, well funny Robo Cop 2014 is comming out. Yeah I guess we could make them pretty with national colours too.
Snarl
13th Zodiac
reply to post by Snarl
Yes, well funny Robo Cop 2014 is comming out. Yeah I guess we could make them pretty with national colours too.
LOL ... Hollywood leading the charge on social conditioning? I can just imagine the Posse Comitatus forum a decade or two from now.
Moves off to search the Dreams & Predictions forum.