A 21st Century Military

Fire of Liberty

It seems that ever since the Pentagon fully introduced UAVs(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)to the battlefield in Afghanistan following September 11, 2001, the demand for these flying surveillance craft have gone amongst our soldiers in the battlefield. While folks in Congress might snicker or put-down Secretary Rumsfeld for re-structuring our military for the 21st Century by reducing divisions into smaller and more mobile units that depend on greater uses of technology but from the looks of this story in USA Today, I'd say that Secretary Rumsfeld is taking us down the right path. Now aside from these UAVs providing a heads-up for our soldiers in locating terrorists, enemy forces and intelligence gathering it also provides us with a psychological advantage over our enemies because they're always looking over their shoulder to see if the US is watching or waiting to strike them dead in their tracks. So hand it to Secretary Rumsfeld for pushing forward the usage and further development of these UAVs.