Monday, August 14, 2006
Canadian CB military uniform
This article is an interesting example of why less wealth organizations are sometimes able to out innovate larger ones. The core is that smaller organizations have less influence then larger and therefore live in a tighter development loop if the leadership in the larger organization wishes to ignore reality.
Jax
The really interesting part of the article isn't that the Canadians have a prototype lightweight CB protective ensemble that doubles as a combat uniform. It's that they have consciously recognized that the terrorist use of CBRN hazards represents a smaller level of exposure and lesser risk than what adversarial nations could cause with NBC weapons. The U.S. military has not come to this recognition yet, primarily because they've been forced to accept this philosophy from the Bush administration's NSC that nations are giving terrorists WMDs and that the threat from terrorists and nation states are equivalent. Read the National Strategy to Combat WMD and the National Military Strategy to Combat WMD and tell me I'm wrong.
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Jax
The really interesting part of the article isn't that the Canadians have a prototype lightweight CB protective ensemble that doubles as a combat uniform. It's that they have consciously recognized that the terrorist use of CBRN hazards represents a smaller level of exposure and lesser risk than what adversarial nations could cause with NBC weapons. The U.S. military has not come to this recognition yet, primarily because they've been forced to accept this philosophy from the Bush administration's NSC that nations are giving terrorists WMDs and that the threat from terrorists and nation states are equivalent. Read the National Strategy to Combat WMD and the National Military Strategy to Combat WMD and tell me I'm wrong.
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