This is a fundamental fallacy. A JDAM is not multi-million dollar technology, and we are not going to run out any time soon. That is why we use them, say unlike a Tomahawk missile which is multi-million per copy and which we could easily run out of. We can afford to trade JDAM's against enemy soldiers all day long.
Correct sir. JDAM kit a couple years ago went for around $18K plus the bomb body which I think still goes for around $2-3 per pound.
A suicide bomber goes into battle once, a guy that plants IEDs will go into battle as many times as he is smart.
I also don't agree with the author's attitude on modern combat as practiced by the U.S. military. His vision is clouded by the expectation of quick and decisive victory the modern U.S. military has made him expect. Suicide bombers and IEDs may inflict casualties everyday, but the number of casualties are exceptionally low compared to what we faced in previous conflicts.
The technology allows the precise application of massive firepower to obliterate enemy we are able to identify. That is being done on a daily basis in Iraq in many new and devestating ways.