Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pitted against a North Korean army corps three times its size. With computers that pass combat orders quickly and sensors that see the enemy better on the battlefield, the high-tech division "just clobbered them," says Brigadier General Keith Kellogg of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command...
Future warfare, in fact, may look like today's science-fiction thrillers. "One day national leaders will fight out virtual wars before they decide to go to war at all," predicts Lieut. General Jay Garner, head of the Army's Space and Strategic Defense Command. Some futurists take it a step further. Countries will have their computers fight simulated wars instead of actual battles to decide who wins. Garner is not willing to go that far. "I have a hard time visualizing that warfare will be a video game devoid of pain...
...with more private contractors needed to operate complex equipment on the battlefield. There will, no doubt, be bureaucratic and even cultural opposition within the military to this new form of fighting. "It's a lot easier to pick up girls in the bar if you're a fighter-wing commander than if you command a drone wing," says Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who directs the Defense Budget Project, a think tank on the military...
...that the U.S. will ever be able to crush an enemy's information system completely. "The bits will get through," he contends. Enemy armies will always find ways to get messages past electronic jamming. With networked microcomputers, cellular phones and video conferencing available, an enemy leader can disperse his command centers to many locations, making it difficult for an attacker to destroy them all. And psy-warriors must compete with a blizzard of electronic media outlets such as commercial television networks, CNN and the Internet for the attention. Cutting off Saddam's telephones and electrical power didn't topple...
...train a pig like you do a dog," says Miller. "You can train them to sit, but not by command." Still, the animals' ability to hit their marks never failed to amaze Noonan. His set, he says, "worked musically, rather than chaotically." Adds producer Miller: "We never once got jaded. As in all good allegories, you get a lot of bang for your buck." Now, it seems, he and his colleagues are going to be rewarded with a lot of bucks because they refused to bang audiences over the head with their effects, their moral or their own cleverness...