‘The single most effective weapon against our deployed forces’
By Rick Atkinson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 30, 2007; Page A01
“We all drank the Kool-Aid,” said a retired Army officer who worked on counter-IED issues for three years. “We believed, and Congress was guilty as well, that because the United States was the technology powerhouse, the solution to this problem would come from science. That attitude was ‘All we have to do is throw technology at it and the problem will go away.’ . . . The day we lose a war it will be to guys with spears and loincloths, because they’re not tied to technology. And we’re kind of close to being there.”
I think they should force these guys to read Christopher Anvil (Pandora’s Planet) and Eric Frank Russell at West Point. For those of you not up on 1950s Astounding SF stories, these guys wrote about technically advanced aliens getting beat by relatively primitive humans.