Just in the aspect of getting around, i post this blog, and my thanks to tech-faq.

The Washington post printed a story about the Islamist terrorists who recently went on a murder spree in Mumbai India, with an interesting technological twist.

The bad guys used technology heavily:

• They trained using satellite images and video footage of their targets
• They used GPS navigation equipment on the boat they hijacked to get to Mumbai
• They used high-resolution satellite images stored on CD
• They carried Blackberry phones for communications
• They switched SIM Cards between cell phones to make it difficult to intercept their communications
• They watched television to monitor police response
• They used statellite phones and VOIP to communicate to their leaders in Pakistan
• Their leaders in Pakistan used email to communicate to the news media

The Indian police, on the other hand, don’t have the financial support that Islamist terrorists benefit from. They lacked basic modern military technologies which would have provided them serious advantages in this conflict:

• Modern riffles -with faster reloading and higher rates of fire
• Riffle Scope -to allow the police to shoot more accurately and safely
• Night Vision-equipment to enable the police to fight better in dark buildings
• Aircraft- for rapid deployment

Technologies like cryptanalysis and nuclear weapons helped us defeat the Nazi’s and Imperial Japan. Similarly, technologies like GPS, night vision gear, and radio communications are proving invaluable against Islamists in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The technologies needed to defeat Islamist terrorism may not even exist today. Only the future will tell us what technological advances will be developed in the next few decades to help defend modern civilization against the barbarian hordes.