Bob Woodward: US military success after surge attributed to "secret weapon"

[Jon88]

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I posted another interview he did in a thread below but I don't think many people saw it. It's a long clip but he talks about it in the first 2-3 minutes. Says it can be compared to "The Manhattan Project." I've read theories about what it is. Wanted to see what everyone else thought...

[theogt]

Things like this are annoying.

[Jon88]

Things like this are annoying.


I think they're fascinating.

[theogt]

I think they're fascinating.Two sides of the same coin.

[Jon88]

Two sides of the same coin.


I just think it's cool that we devised a way to turn the momentum around. The troop death rates have gone way down. If you go to liveleak you see tons of devastating combat footage of the US vs. Al qaeda. I always wondered how we decimated the insurgency like we did in such little time. Now I think I know.

[Vintage]

I just think it's cool that we devised a way to turn the momentum around. The troop death rates have gone way down. If you go to liveleak you see tons of devastating combat footage of the US vs. Al qaeda. I always wondered how we decimated the insurgency like we did in such little time. Now I think I know.


How?

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[Jon88]

How?

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From what I've read, at the start of the surge we started paying the Sunni insurgents to join our side and fight Al qaeda. We've come up with some kind of marking system where we pay people to mark other individuals with "something" and we also mark people on the battlefield. Later on, like at night, we see who's been marked and bomb where they are. I've read it's like the insurgents "have a red dot between their eyes."

[Common Sense]

From what I've read, at the start of the surge we started paying the Sunni insurgents to join our side and fight Al qaeda. We've come up with some kind of marking system where we pay people to mark other individuals with "something" and we also mark people on the battlefield. Later on, like at night, we see who's been marked and bomb where they are. I've read it's like the insurgents "have a red dot between their eyes."

http://blog.wired.com/defense/files/Richardson_Continuous.pdf

Look at some of the last few pages. Wow.

[trickblue]

Luckily we will defund any new technology... ;)

[Jon88]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/files/Richardson_Continuous.pdf

Look at some of the last few pages. Wow.

China can keep their spending up. We're way ahead. They can bootleg our old stuff all they want.

[Hoofbite]

Secret Weapon my ***.

If there was such a weapon it would be all over youtube. This war is so pictured, video taped, and documented that there is no way a truly "secret weapon" exists.

[JBond]

Bob Woodward = http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k73/mapple1965/clown.jpg