I don't mind spending money, as long as I see see the fruits of the
expenditures. Money paid towards a strong military
The strong military you're buying now will be staffed by none other
than
your children. No matter WHAT the cause, you won't want them there to
fight it.
I'd like to see our military spending increased to the point where we
can create completely automated weaponry that can be controlled by
"soldiers" well out of harm's way. We already have pilotless drones
carrying
warheads, unmanned ground vehicles, and Tomahawk missiles capable of
firing from
hundreds of miles away with near-pin-point accuracy. We're in the early
development phase of battlefield robots that will be able to do the
street-to-street fighting being done in Iraq.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...armyrobot.html


Battlefield robots doing street-to-street fighting? Heheheh. Too much
RoboCop in your TV diet.

Actually, a weapons platform advancing in front of a platoon that has on
it
advanced radar and targeting that "sees" incoming rounds and directs
suppression fire without intervention all within milliseconds would be a
good tool. They have a few systems that track mortar and larger shells
and
direct fire in the field now.

Spin-offs from our highly successful "Star Wars" missile defense system,
no doubt.

Yes, they finally had a successful test. A few more and one of the tools
for intercepting incomming warheads is on-line. I believe this one is for
short range low altitude missles apx 500 mile range. The ICBM intercept
(Star Wars) system is still buggy and they haven't decided on the best
method. With a successful system in place Iran and N Korea are not as much
of a threat.

We still have to worry about terrorism in any case so the development of
those systems won't make much difference to the current situation.