The New Military

For those that sit back quietly without doing some research and blast our military saying it is not ready for 21st century warfare, just read the following clip found in Politics Daily. The following relates to a cold war fighter, the B-1 Bomber, who many in congress say is obsolete in this new environment of the war on terror.
"The supersonic B-1 was designed almost a half-century ago to attack deep into the Soviet Union with thermonuclear bombs. Surprisingly, the "Bone'' has emerged as one of the most effective weapons of the counterinsurgency fight in Afghanistan, a turn of events that should humble today's analysts confidently predicting the shape of conflicts and weapons in the year 2060.

Its huge bomb capacity is not the main reason. Instead, it's the jet's ability to loiter overhead for hours and use newly acquired sensors to scan the ground, finding knots of Taliban fighters, watching remote compounds to see who comes and goes, detecting buried roadside bombs and sometimes even catching insurgents planting the improvised explosive devices."

Thank God for our military industrial complex and their ability to develop and create products that are so good as to be able to change & modify their mission. This is just one example and there are many others. For all those nay-sayers, I just wish our Congress was as able when they write new legislation creating new programs that do not have the ability to change with the times.