For the geeks among us, here’s a very interesting article from Wired.com about the technology used by US troops in the war. Some very amusing aspects…
Heh! The icing on the cake there.
Funny. After watching some news breakdown last night, I mentioned to my father how clear the divide was between the bedraggled Iraqi forces with their ill-fitting cotton fatigues, Syrian boots, and cheap Chinese stampings-and-junkwood AK-47’s compared to the the U.S. forces in their tough denim fatigues, kevlar armour, carbon-fiber composite helmets (complete with digital-radio insert), lightweight, rugged and accurite high-velocity rifles. My dad said something like:
"Yeah, it was the stormtroopers from “Star Wars” versus “The Little Rascals”.
My dad is the coolest!
Um… he does realise that the stormtroopers from Star Wars ended up as the Bad Guys, right?