[Walkingfeather]

The answer to that question is your artillery is not behind you it is ahead of you and above you 24/7. Please check out the video demonstrations on Metalstorm.com . Look at the area denial and the air support demos.... you will get a sense of how we will be fighting in the next 30 years.

[Quix]

It will surprise me greatly if we have 30 years before the last war before the 1,000 of peace is fought.

Though, technically, I suppose as long as one person who was alive in 1948--is alive when things conclude--the Scripture and interpretation would be intact.

I just have a hard time seeing all the trend lines take that long to reach their more or less given or natural end point.

[Fee]

I agree. The Army needs more AC-130 gunships that can loiter above and come in slow/accurate. Stryker vehicles are wheeled (requires less maintenance and fuel), and we might be able to helolift most of the supplies to the groundforces (thus eliminating the need for ground supply trains that are vulnerable to irregular forces). We need more light mobile recon infantry trained to infiltrate and stay out of sight to call in precision strikes. A big waste to use Special Operations as infantry.