Army Expects to 'Blind Enemy' With Weapon

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Army Expects to 'Blind Enemy' With Weapon
November 18, 2008
Army News Service|by C. Todd Lopez

WASHINGTON - By 2010 the Army expects to have more than 1,500 Soldiers trained in the art of "blinding and deafening" America's enemies by wielding the radio spectrum as a weapon.

The Army has in the past relied heavily on both the Navy and the Air Force for their electronic warfare capability, said Col. Laurie G. Buckhout, the Army's chief of electronic warfare. But the service plans to remedy that by creating a new electronic warfare career field for officers, warrant officers and enlisted members.

"We're going to be able to protect ourselves from spectrum-using threats, which we can't really do for ourselves today," said Buckhout. "We have the Air Force and the Navy doing that for us now and that is getting a little old for them and old for us. We want to be able to attack, blind, deafen and isolate the enemy before he does it to us."

The Army doesn't really plan on making anybody actually blind or deaf. Instead, it plans on providing Soldiers with the training and equipment they need to effectively wage war within the radio spectrum and to apply fires on that new battlefield that can destroy the ability of the enemy to communicate amongst themselves.

"Electronic warfare is the new battlefield, it's our new domain," said Buckhout.


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[Lerkfish]

1. the next world war will be fought with sticks and rocks.

[sui generis]

2. so we're going to flood engagement zones with EM radiation

and magically hope our own delicate hardware will still work? let me guess, yet another application of the might micro-wave cannon, just slightly de-tuned and aimed.

That's all fine and dandy until the delicate molecules in people's brains start dancing around, and then they'll be blind, deaf, and STUPID.

The next war will be fought by flinging poop.