On Wednesday, November 7, 2001, at 11:17 AM, Hagen Lang wrote:
<SNIP>
> I really like to know if you know of any other army that uses
> the Newton, especially in Britain, France or the US, what kind
> of special software-programmes they might use and if one of you
> ever saw one of these things. Though I am not a fan of military
> stuff in general, I´d really like to receive proposals how to get one
> of those unique gadgets... (ok, wishfull thinking) ;-)
>
<SNIP>
I knew I'd read about the US Army and Newton's way back when, and
managed to dig up the page on wired.com:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/eword.html?pg=9
Battle Smarts
By Ashley Craddock
Battle Smarts
When is one US Marine better than three? When he has an Apple Newton
squirreled away in his foxhole. At least that's what the military says
it learned last March when roughly one-third of the marines in a unit of
1,500 were sent into simulated combat with a land-mobile radio and a
handheld computer.
Their opponents - a conventional force of 4,500 marines armed with
traditional radios - found themselves dogged at every turn by the
tech-toting unit.
"The idea was to marry technologies with new organizational strategies,"
says Commander Ron Henderson, a US Navy officer who participated in
operation Hunter Warrior. According to Henderson, the wired warriors,
whose leaders had access to artificial intelligence strategy advice and
virtual reality helmets allowing them to track their troops, "fought"
well against their massed, heavily armed foes. "Only one high tech
outfit was destroyed - virtually, of course."
Copyright © 1993-2001 The Condé Nast Publications Inc. All rights
reserved.
Copyright © 1994-2001 Wired Digital, Inc. All rights reserved.
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