The Need for a USAF Uav Center of Excellence - Kniskern, Kenneth M.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. In 360 B.C., the philosopher Plato eloquently quoted this statement by his teacher Socrates in his writing The Republic. When Socrates spoke of this he was referring to the ideal state, which when faced with a need or problem, will encourage creative efforts to satisfy this need or problem1 Throughout the last century of warfare, the necessity to defeat the enemy in a more efficient way contributed to innovations in combat tools. J.C.H. Fuller, when writing about the anatomy of battle in WWI, spoke of the effects of the tank. For the first time a soldier…mehr

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Necessity is the mother of invention. In 360 B.C., the philosopher Plato eloquently quoted this statement by his teacher Socrates in his writing The Republic. When Socrates spoke of this he was referring to the ideal state, which when faced with a need or problem, will encourage creative efforts to satisfy this need or problem1 Throughout the last century of warfare, the necessity to defeat the enemy in a more efficient way contributed to innovations in combat tools. J.C.H. Fuller, when writing about the anatomy of battle in WWI, spoke of the effects of the tank. For the first time a soldier had, with one single tool of warfare, increased mobility, security from the negative effects of bullets, and the ability to discharge his weapons from a moving platform protected by a fixed shield.2 From WWI to today's operations in Iraq, fielded forces depend heavily on the tank for protection and projection of force.