John Spencer, Modern Institute Of War: Wanted: Bullet Stopping Breakthroughs
I am not a scientist.
I’m definitely not a scientist. I’m a warfighter. And what I carry into battle today is not much different than what I carried when I entered the army in 1993. The M4 rifle is slightly updated from the one I carried in 1995. The 5.56 mm rounds or 7.62 mm ammo belt is Vietnam vintage. The entrenching tool, weapon magazines, knives, flashlights, poncho, and boots are for the most part exactly the same.
You can see why I find scientific inventions that support the Nation’s tip of the spear underwhelming.
Yes, I’ve seen many of the prototypes for things such as exoskeleton suits, robotic mules, and hand held drones that are all supposed to help the future ground soldier. But that’s just it; it’s always the future soldier. I guess I had higher ambitions for the scientists that put a man on the moon and invented the internet.
A Taliban militant or ISIS terrorist on today’s battlefield can fire a rifled weapon literally invented before the 1800s at American Soldiers and with a well-aimed shot this enemy can inflict a casualty.
So, I have a simple question and challenge to the scientific community writ large – whether a research university, warrior scholar, or mad scientist, I believe the question is simple enough:
Where is the invention that can defeat a bullet in flight?
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WNU Editor: The author is talking about discovering science and developing technology that does not exist .... but if such technology should ever be developed and applied .... it would truly be revolutionary and change warfare in ways that one can only imagine.
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