War Tools

I've been thinking about the World Wide War on Terror and what we need to do a better more humane job of conducting it.

What I’ve come up with are:

New Tools for a Changing World.

A new tool we need to successfully conduct a war/invasion/police action/altercation is a small, durable, dependable, accurate lie detector that can be easily operated by the average soldier. It must have no complicated parts and require not special environment in which to operate. Something along the line of a relatively small, single piece device that can be strapped around the head of a bound man in the field. When the person/prisoner is asked questions the unit would both detect that they understood the question then verify whether or not the answer they gave was truthful. Based upon the results of the interview he or she will be let go, held for further interrogation, imprisoned as an enemy combatant or killed on the spot as a spy.

Another useful tool in this endeavor is the camera ball that floats 12 feet above the heads of the patrol as they make their way through the streets of the enemy city. It takes continuos videos in 6 overlapping directions so as to make it possible to back up the story told by the soldiers about how they had first taken fire from the man that they just shot in the back of the head as he dropped his weapon and tried to run away.

A long-range stun gun like a sniper might use that would stop/stun but not kill.

Incapacitation device like a bracelet that would make you sleep until it was removed and would knockout anyone trying to disable it or move the wearer. (A replacement for handcuffs.)

Force Field/Personal Shield. A unit that would keep bullets and explosions from affecting an individual who is wearing it.

Antigrav (Not Air Driven) hovercraft that wouldn’t set off mines.

Better mine detectors and removers. Could be based on improvements to technology used for metal detectors.

Damping field that would freeze/knock out everyone in a specified area when activated. This would be to cover a large area such as the vacanity of a courthouse or military base that might come under attack.

Microwave field that would make bullets and explosives blow up when they enter a certain area. The idea being that you warn everybody to leave their arms and explosives at home than you run them through a sally port equipped with this device that sets off any explosives killing only the carrier of said explosives.

These are just some ideas that are based on logical premises developed from years of experience in military and High Tech arenas. I can’t say how most of them would work but I believe they are all possible in the near future.

Uncle Dave