summary:
              Basically, the military shifted from a peacetime military to a continuously wartime military. Even the types of wars have changed. They're not the tank-on-tank battles that soldiers have been training for. They're counterinsurgency campaigns, in which junior officers must assume as much initiative as commanders and all soldiers must be as attentive to community relations as to combat. A basic Army unit has been scaled down from a division of about 12,000 soldiers to a brigade of about 4,000 soldiers. Tanks and field artillery officers are not as important as they used to be. Manned air-crafts are now being controlled in a base by a joy-stick.

analysis:
            The military is becoming more technology friendly. They are trying not to put so many men out in war so that the risks of being killed are not as high. High armored weapons like a tank is not essential anymore to winning a battle.

reflection question:
                            Why did it take something as big as a terrorist attack for the military to be more aware of things?


Kaplan, Fred. "Our Soldiers and Generals Have Adapted Well to the Post-9/11 World. Here's How They Did It." Slate Magazine. The Slate Group, 2 Sept. 2011. Web. 04 Mar. 2012. <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2011/09/the_post911_military.2.html>.