It is up to EACH SOLDIER to develop his own independant understanding of the battlefield.
If you do not do this, you are neither a warrior nor a professional. The U.S. military which tries to make people into blindly obedient robots still hasn't figured out why USS Coles and marine battalion headquarters get blown up or that death traps like V-22s and LAV-IIIs get selected and purchased. Its all because we do not have a THINKING, SEEING, PROFESSIONAL military that self-corrects before these disasters take place. We can no longer continue to ruin ourselves and provide enemies easy asymmetric weaknesses for them to exploit. We must get our "head-in-the-game".
I suggest using a "THOUGHT MODULE" concept for information flow and storage as the Soldier studies about the modern battlefield.
PERSONAL COMPUTER THOUGHT-MODULE
1. Find out facts you need by internet search, personal reflection, e-mails, interviews, photo taking/scanning etc.
2. File into your "C" drive pictures, microsoft word texts as you find them:
Folder: Military
Sub-folders:
Air
---Rotary-wing
---Fixed-wing
Land
---Tracks
---Wheels
---Combat Engineering
Sea
C4i/Strike
---Weapons
-----Hand
-----Vehicular
-----WMD/NBC
Fighter-bombers
---Rotary-wing
---Fixed-wing
C4I stuff
Uniforms/Insignia
History
Training/Organization
Threat
PERSONAL PAPER THOUGHT-MODULE
3. Combine/Write into a microsoft word document your text, links, photos your "THOUGHT-MODULE" when you are ready. Always go back to your THOUGHT-MODULE and update as new info is found. Consider it your "target folder".
THOUGHT-MODULE FOR A/V PRESENTATIONS
4. Make into power points if its more picture info and less text and for presentations
THOUGHT-MODULE FOR THE WWW
5. Convert to a web page and post onto your personal and/or military unit web site(s). Direct people you want to influence to your web sites and specific pages.
PAPER THOUGHT-MODULE FOR PRESENTATION TO VIPs
6. If needed you can print up your data into IBICO spiral bound books. By obtaining IBICO paper with spiral binding holes and printing from your computer and then binding if you want full-color for VIPs; others use your color masters for B/W xerox copies at your local copy place using IBICO pre-holed paper. Binding services usually about $1-2 a book. IBICO machines run about $200, not necessary.
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CD-ROM THOUGHT MODULE
7. You can make a CD-ROM of your data and send/hand-deliver
AUTHORITATIVE PAPER THOUGHT-MODULE (Book, magazine articles)
8. When you are ready you can reformat to submit as a manuscript for a professionally-bound book or magazine publisher if you keep updating your "thought-modules".
WARNING:
You can email any of this stuff given time, but people's eyes hurt after computer reading after a while---busy people like Congressional staffers like the IBICO spiral bound briefing books which they can read quickly at their own liesure...the authoritative paper THOUGHT MODULE is still the most powerful weapon we have, use sparingly as a "tactical nuke".