In “UAV Implementation at the Infantry Platoon Level” (Military & Aerospace), the author reported “I spent 2 ½ years over 2 deployments to Iraq as an Infantryman and we rarely had good UAV support. When we did have UAV support, it was not always ‘top of the line’ because the operators were FOB based and […]
In a recent posting (Network-centric Warfare: Dead or Alive ?), I wrote about the debate concerning network-centric warfare. In the wake of the “reorganization” and outright elimination of high-profile initiatives and programs associated with network-centric warfare, Defense vendors are anxiously wondering if it will persist as a central doctrine for transforming the military. Clearly, the […]
Recently, this blog analyzed Defense budgets for unmanned systems (Robots good. People bad). We took the relatively uncontroversial position that whether or not the Defense budget itself grows, the funding for unmanned systems will increase. ABI Research seems to support our conclusion in a new report that states,”…the global market for military robotics will grow […]
