Reducing military spending
Ivo Skoric
ivo at balkansnet.org
Thu Feb 17 03:47:53 CET 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/technology/16robots.html?pagewanted=
1&ei=5094&en=527b7e950d00d351&hp&ex=1108616400&partner=homepage
Pentagon says that an average soldier's upkeep, training, and
retirement costs about $4 million. That's tax-payers money. If the
soldier is replaced by a robot, that would cost only $230K per piece.
And the cost of maintenance, of course, shich hopefully would be less
than $4M. Although one never knows with new and untested technology.
And where are they going to make them? In China?
On the other hand, present declared enemy, already operates with army
of cheaper force that are easy and quick to train, and that do not
need retirement, since they die before that time: suicide bombers.
They have disadvantages - since they are not re-usable, like US
Marines - but overall they come at much cheaper price tag. To beat
the army of robots, maybe Al Qaeda responds by cloning the most
succesful, most zealous, most pliable suicide bombers?
ivo
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