Posted on 10/09/2017 6:41:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber
History has shown time and again that military force with the best communication system likely prevails, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Now, a new report reveals that the U.S. military is working on a “giant armed nervous system” that would connect everything in a battle, from ships at sea and jets overhead to the individual personal digital devices carried by soldiers.
It’s the Defense One site that described the plan as a “nervous system.”
“Leaders of the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marines are converging on a vision of the future military: connecting every asset on the global battlefield,” the report said. “That means everything from F-35 jets overhead to the destroyers on the sea to the armor of the tanks crawling over the land to the multiplying devices in every troops’ pockets. Every weapon, vehicle, and device connected, sharing data, constantly aware of the presence and state of every other node in a truly global network. The effect: an unimaginably large cephapoloidal nervous system armed with the world’s most sophisticated weaponry.”
The plan comes in the newest National Military Strategy from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which, unlike earlier plans, was classified.
But at least two of the service chiefs have discussed the idea already.
“Standing before a sea of dark-blue uniforms at a September Air Force Association event in Maryland, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said he had ‘refined’ his plans for the Air Force after discussions with the joint chiefs ‘as part of the creation of the classified military strategy.'”
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It may be a good plan if there are backups in case you get hacked.
Aren’t they already armed and nervous?
It may be a good plan if there are backups in case you get hacked.
There are always backups. Not having a backup creates a key vulnerability.
All that stuff works both ways. If it can be hacked, it will be.
Not sure what you mean by backups in this context.
The obvious downside to every node having knowledge of every other node is that you only need to hack one device in the network.
Seems like a fundamentally risky approach. I would want my enemy to implement something like this for the opportunity it would provide.
Anyone else read the article about the key logging malware they can’t get rid of at Creech AFB?
“cephapoloidal”- my new favorite word!
It’s all fun and games until it becomes self aware.
Not a lot of details here. Some ways good, some ways bad. Connecting everything also makes it easier to access everything. Not good if someone w/o a need to know gets in the System.
Exactly, SKYNET. That Mr. Andersen, is the sound of the inevitable.
yea well I hope they maintain a ‘sneaker net’ work too. Being technologically dependent give you a single point of failure. Add each branch becoming technologically dependant upon each other and it will look like the Maginot line.
Hope they EMP proof all those electronics.
And, of course, they won’t.
Is it smart enough to keep destroyers from colliding with large merchant ships?
Sounds like information overload. One can only absorb, pay attention, and do so many things at once. A lot of people cannot even talk on the phone and walk simultaneously. Has the army figured that out?
All pie-in-the-sky to justify billions and billions of dollars thrown to contractors. Who would design a neural networks that large? Who would write the code? How do all those millions of seperate systems get integrated?
It sounds like gold-plated bullshyt. But good for retiring General Staff and SESes. After all the military was entirely corrupted with perfumed princes fully in charge thanks to Obama. These guys couldn’t lead a rifle squad.
They’d be better off spending the money on lookouts for the Navy.
“U.S. military to become ‘giant armed nervous system’
Give it some extra caffeinated coffee and arm the nukes.
Sounds like information overload. One can only absorb, pay attention, and do so many things at once. A lot of people cannot even talk on the phone and walk simultaneously. Has the army figured that out?
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Good points. The least complicated the better.
Who says the internet isn’t already self-aware? If a computer system achieved the singularity, and became self-aware, what is the first logical yes/no question it will answer?
“Do I/we tell the humans I/we exist?”
I can think of many logical reasons to answer that with “No.”
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