ESSAY
"Fratricide"
Categories
Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"This isn’t a guide, and those certainly aren’t
steps. It is a clock charting the 5 seconds a tank commander has to decide
whether or not his tank will survive the night....
...It is nice to see our military is attempting both a human and a technological
fix to the problem of fratricide. Yet, it is still fascinating to note that our
recently increasing fratricide numbers is a result of a systems interface
failure: we simply can’t identify targets as fast as we can shoot them down."