Micromanagement

The more I think about this Land Warrior concept, almost twenty pounds of wearable electronics that some 9th ID troops soon to deploy to Iraq will be toting, the more it seems to me not designed for the individual infantryman to know where his fellows are on the battlefield so much as for his commander to micromanage him from afar. In Vietnam the cliche was the battalion commander high above the troops in his helicopter telling small-unit leaders what to do. With Land Warrior locating every troop by GPS, I can imagine the Pentagon "dropping in" for an audio-video briefing in the midst of a firefight.