Short route to Paradise or Hell or to nowhere ! Can Smart Guns make any difference in case of Dumb US Leadership in DC ?

AGHA H AMIN THE HARSH LESSON OF HISTORY IS THAT FRANCE WAS DEFEATED DESPITE HAVING A MACHINE GUN IN 1871 THE ISSUE IN AFGHANISTAN IS THE IED AND TO NEUTRALISE THAT A STRATEGIC RESPONSE IS REQUIRED WHICH MEANS DESTROYING THE IED LOGISTIC BASE IN PAKISTANI AND IRANIAN BALOCHISTAN ?

TACTICAL SUCCESS DEPENDS ON GREATER STRATEGIC TALENT ? THE ESSENTIAL ISSUE IN A NUT SHELL IS THAT THE US SOLDIER CANNOT CHANGE THE OUTCOME AT STRATEGIC LEVEL UNLESS THE DC LEADERSHIP FOLLOWS THE CORRECT STRATEGY. NO AMOUNT OF BRAVEY IN HELMAND CAN CHANGE THE OUTCOME UNLESS INSURGENT LOGISTIC BASES ARE DESTROYED IN PAKISTANI AND IRANIAN BALOCHISTAN ? TACTICALLY THE US ARMY IS SOUND , THE WET P____ ISSUE IS CENTERED IN DC ? THE US FAILURE IN AFGHANISTAN WILL CREATE MYTHS THAT MAY NOT BE REALISTIC BUT WILL MAKE THIS WORLD MORE UNSAFE PLACE US FAILURE TO INTERDICT AND DESTROY LOGISTIC AND FINANCES OF INSURGENTS- A PURE STRATEGIC FAILURE

AN AMERICANS COMMENT ON MY MAP ABOUT GRAND CONTRADICTIONS IN US STRATEGY

Thus - only way to stop American adventurism is a Draft that means all families will be looking at what we are doing overseas and ask, "Is this really a War of Necessity" as our beloved president claims and in most cases they will say "NO!!!"

The other problem is that we are an all volunteer professional army. Thus, the average family doesn't worry about their son or daughter going to ear - not their problem. Thus the majority of Americans are not affected by our foreign interventions until something like 911 and then we get this "Blind Flag Waving Patriotism" and don't ask why - we just say go and get the baddies - giving our political elites and the military industrial complex free reign!! My guess is many of the young lower rank soldiers are not that well educated & come from lower middleclass or poor families - the military guarantees them a job, food, clothes, roof over their heads and given today's economy - not a bad deal. They are easily turned into killing machines and if they die - other than their immediate families - they are like beggars in the street - cannon fodder, expendable - that no one cares about - likely the case for most militaries - you won't see the sons and daughters of the elite on the front lines if at all - and if at all most likely they will be protected in the Green Zone!

Major Amin: Thanks - a picture tells a 1,000 words as they say. You are educating a lot of people. I am sorry but our political elites don't represent our people and I fear many of the youth are brainwashed with filtered information and ideology - they haven't lived and seen the world so are easily manipulated and mislead. I guess this is a global problem today and you with think with the INTERNET and the information age it would be hard to do - but our media is controlled by the corporates. Regards XYZ

PAKISTAN ARMY FAILURE IN FATA AND PAKISTAN IN NEXT TEN YEARS WILL ALSO DESTABILISE THE WHOLE REGION ? WITH FRIEND AND CO AUTHOR COLONEL DAVID OSINSKININ FRONT OF NATO HEADQUARTERS KABUL, WE DISCUSSED WET p____ AND THIS WAS A JOKE WHICH REALLY LANDED US INTO FITS OF LAUGHTER

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When the round is fired, the internal computer counts the number of rotations it makes, to calculate the distance flown. The rifle's muzzle velocity is 210 metres a second, which is the starting point for the calculation. When the computer calculates that the round has flown the requisite distance, it issues the instruction to detonate. The explosion creates a burst of shrapnel that is lethal within a radius of several metres (exact details are classified). And the whole process takes less than five seconds. Just how the turn-counting fuse works is an even more closely guarded secret than the lethal radius though judging by the number of failed attempts to hack into computers that might be expected to hold information about it, many people would dearly like to know. Certainly, the trick is not easy. An alternative design developed in South Korea, which clocks flight time rather than number of rotations, seems plagued by problems. Last year South Korea's Agency of Defence Development halted production of trial versions of the K-11, as this rifle is called, and announced a redesign, following serious malfunctions. Several European countries are planning to buy the XM25, some of them, including Germany, are working on weapons that operate in the same way, but fire 40mm rounds. Such bullets are easier (and less expensive) to make than 25mm rounds. But starting with a smaller design increases the usefulness of the technology. It is easier to enlarge components than to shrink them, so the XM25 bullet design could, without too much trouble, be made to fit ammunition intended for weapons with larger-bore barrels. ATK has already begun modifying the technology to fit in the shells fired by marine-corps artillery pieces, according to Jeff Janey, the firm's vice-president of business development. An XM25 with a thermal sight and a four-round magazine is reckoned by informed observers of the field to cost about $35,000. The bullets, which have to be made by hand at the moment, clock in at several hundred dollars each. But the price of a bullet could fall to as low as $25 when ATK switches to automated production. And even at its current price, both gun and ammunition compare favourably with alternative methods of dealing with dug-in gunmen.