{"id":39410,"date":"2014-01-22T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39410"},"modified":"2014-01-22T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:50:50","slug":"robot-joes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39410","title":{"rendered":"Robot Joes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that the Army is looking at replacing soldiers with robots. I guess they never watched the Terminator series. Doesn’t Skynet mean anything to anyone anymore?<\/p>\n

Defense News reported that Gen. Cone, head of the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, said, \u201cI\u2019ve got clear guidance to think about what if you could robotically perform some of the tasks in terms of maneuverability, in terms of the future of the force.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said at the Army Aviation Symposium in Arlington that he also has \u201cclear guidance to rethink\u201d the traditional size of the infantry squad, currently at nine.<\/p>\n

The general then said that more unmanned ground vehicles are on the way, Defense News reported. He also said that while the Army was pursuing a goal of shrinking its soldier count from 540,000 to 490,000 by 2014, and to 420,000 by 2019, an even smaller force could still prove successful \u2013 and his staff was currently forming an advisory panel to see how that could be accomplished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think the general is actually talking about replacing infantrymen with robots, but the article makes it sound like he is contemplating it. I can see replacing truck drivers with remote control stuff, or using robots to carry an infantry squad’s equipment, or something like that. But you really can’t replace an infantryman with a robot. Half of an infantryman’s job is to bitch, complain and try to make himself comfortable. Now if they can program all of that into a robot, I’ll be impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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