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Turning off the cell phone towers is probably going to be too late. How many phone calls could be made (e.g. by computer) in 10 minutes? Lots. The horse will have left the barn.

A complementary tactic is for the cellphone companies to block massive activation of pre-paid cellphones within a short time window. I get lots of calls that go into voicemail when my cellphone is unengaged because the carrier is at capacity and does not want to connect the call. Surely the carriers can detect centrally which phones are pre-paid, and surely they have enough usage data to know what constitutes an aberrant pattern of activation. So they block the calls when the aberrancy is high. A few of the phones may detonate, but 500 would not...

I think it's pretty crappy to give a private company an advertising windfall like this. Not that we should SELL space on postage stamps to companies. But surely America muster a little non-commercialism somewhere inside its great soul and display it on postage stamps.

The USA Today article gives the impression that the cuts are not restricted to just the civilian component.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-08-brain-center_x.htm

A plausible motive may come from the last sentence: The Center has said that up to 20% of front-line infantry could have brain injuries. That's a BIG public relations problem, if true. The (human) cost of the war skyrockets and, as for the impact on recruiting... What mother would let her son join the Army with odds like that?