entire book - Chris Hables Gray

Military Review
The Professional Journal of Die United Stales Ai
NOVEMBER 1B93
OPERATIONS
Future operations fantasy. This cover from the most important U.S. military journal demonstrates
that science fiction can become military policy. When read in detail, the military's plans
for cyborg soldiers deploying state-of-the-art and yet-to-be invented military technologies are too
disturbing to be amusing. Fear of technological surprise has become a mania for the U.S. military,
leading to funding for everything from psychic protection for ICBM sibs to research on antigravity
rays. As if nuclear weapons weren't enough, various biological, chemical, amplified light,
ultrasonic sound, and other weapons are continually being developed, in the quest for the magic
bullet that will win all wars. Of course the main force amplifier to capture the military's imagination
is information itself. You can be sure that the soldiers, tanks, and air frames in the illustration are
linked together and to various headquarters through the magic of command, control, communications
, computers, and information systems. But information is not knowledge, nor is it wisdom,
and too much of it can easily lead to defeat when it is confused for either, as the wars in Vietnam
and Afghanistan demonstrated. "Future Operations" cover from Military Review, vol. 73, no.
11, November 1993.
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