User talk:Paul Carrier

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Glad to have your help on Army restructuring

I'm very, very glad to have more eyes on this. Not surprisingly, some of the documents are contradictory at a detailed level. At the moment, I'm trying to sort out some of the electronics interoperability, where I'm discovering some things really need to interoperate among BCT, Fires, and Aviation.

Meanwhile, I've found an interesting Air Defense page, which, among other things, is showing that FAAD is alive again, and there's both US and US-Israeli reactivation of the active defense against artillery, rockets and mortars--mostly laser systems. The Israelis are debating whether to buy Phalanx CIWS coming off ships as an interim defense against unguided rockets, until the energy weapons are ready.

There's also probably a whole separate article on National Guard politics. I've found several stories about states being told their tank brigades are going to become support brigades, and They Are Not Amused.Howard C. Berkowitz 19:54, 30 July 2008 (CDT)