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Because the 18 year old who really misses his girlfriend needs to have his phone on him? The operator's wife back at Bragg (excuse me, Fort Liberty now) wants t
by mandevil 3y ago
Because the 18 year old who really misses his girlfriend needs to have his phone on him? The operator's wife back at Bragg (excuse me, Fort Liberty now) wants to know that he's safe, to use the example from the original article about watching phones go from North Carolina to Syria and back.
The article I linked to in WP talked about how difficult the Ukrainian army is finding cellphone discipline, at the beginning of their third year of high intensity war (and a decade of low-intensity combat operations). Because even in a real shooting war zone this sort of stuff is hard to police.
- kjellsbells 3y agoThe Ukrainian situation is especially interesting because to my mind it is the first cellphone war. We've gone from cellphones being used as passive electronic switches (as in, detonation systems for roadside bombs) to it being the control interface for innovative weaponry and tactics such as drones against infantry. I dont know that irregular or inexperienced troops will ever give up this level of capability, and I'm not sure that wealthier militaries have figured out how to mutate consumer cellphones into equally powerful portable tools without essentially dumbing them down back to tetra radios.