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Essay / The Army Adapts to the Future - 1017
As times change for types of warfare, transportation, armor as well as weapons also change. From the time of cavemen with rocks wrapped in veins around a stick, followed by the Renaissance era with archers and swords. Then came the conquest of the Americas with single-shot rifles and light clothing, today with multi-shot automatic rifles and bulletproof armor. Some wonder what's next in the development of military technologies such as weapons and armor. Marvel's Iron Man takes a very detailed look at the government, following the first film as Tony Stark (main character in the comics and films) creates a suit that gives him superhuman abilities, bulletproof metal, a system health monitoring, the ability to fly. , and many other things. Many fans of the Iron Man trilogy dream of the day when science fiction becomes reality. Officials with U.S. Special Operations Command formally asked researchers to help build the suit, which the Army calls the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS). As the military prepares for future wars, it wants to study the Iron Man suit and develop a functional suit by 2018. Even if the cost of building an Iron Man suit is too high, the armor would help protect soldiers from the serious injuries of war by medical/technological advancements, the abilities it gives to the operator, this would also change warfare. Although many people might argue that it would simply be a waste of time because of other failures in military development, the national budget is shrinking. In the late 1990s, the U.S. government began work on a new type of spy satellite. The project cost American taxpayers billions of dollars, but no satellites were built. The reason why...... middle of paper ......tional, nd Web. October 21, 2013. .Official Army website. Army, October 17, 2013. Web. October 21, 2013. .Puzzanghera, Jim, Kathleen Hennessey and David S. Cloud. “US Budget Cuts Trigger ‘Sluggishness.’” Gentlemen. ProQuest, March 2, 2013. Web. November 5, 2013. Robson, David. Weapons and defense research. San Diego: Benchmark, 2013. Print.Yahoo: News. Yahoo, October 10, 2013. Web. October 21. 2013. .