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I'm not in the military but I think bringing a commercial smartphone on a military operation against a very electronically advanced adversary is probably the st

• usrusr 10y ago
  True enough, but on the other hand, how can you be a hero if you can't tweet about it? This particular conflict seems to be characterized by a rather unusual combination of (somewhat) irregular troops and heavy artillery, so creative use of consumer electronics for both morale and maths should not be too surprising. Besides, troops making ends meet with old soviet weapons stockpiles are not alone in using consumer electronics to augment their military hardware: http://disruptivethinkers.blogspot.de/2012/05/lessons-in-how-ipad-changed-close-air.html http://disruptivethinkers.blogspot.de/2012/05/lessons-in-how... I guess these guys had more than enough process in place to avoid the mistakes made by Ukrainian artillerists, but then the baseline technology from which improvisation starts is supposed to be much less outdated in the USMC than in Ukrainian forces (who in considerable parts are hardly more than post-fact legalized militias, including an international cast of "lifestyle warriors").