The Pentagon is using some of its most sophisticated weaponry in Afghanistan, but defense industry expert Winslow Wheeler says Americans have a technological ignorance when it comes to machines’ capabilities.
The war in Afghanistan has become a testing ground for innovations, says Wheeler, a director of the Center for Defense Information’s Straus Military Reform Project. Wars, he noted, are typically used as a laboratory for figuring out what works and what doesn’t.
“But machines don’t win wars – people win them,” Wheeler added. “They use their minds and their moral strength to do that, and Americans tend to forget about that.”