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5 Combatant Identification in Urban Warfare
5 Combatant Identification in Urban Warfare
Pages 62-72
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This technology was initially developed in the United States and is now manufactured and sold commercially in Switzerland.1 KEY FEATURES OF FOREIGN URBAN WARFARE Modern urban warfare has been described extensively in connection with many wars over the past 50 to 75 years. Instances of such warfare include German/Soviet combat in Stalingrad, U.S.
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Rules of engagement from a RED force perspective include causing confusion, hiding among the noncombatant population in areas not necessarily designated as combat zones, jamming electronic devices, and moving so that prior reconnaissance or mapping by the BLUE force is of limited utility. When cast in the context of urban warfare, the scenarios become even more complex, if only because noncombatants must also be positively identified to avoid harming them.
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Enemy combatants may leverage technological advances available in the global marketplace to develop methods of causing false identification of noncombatant parties as combatants. This situation could lead to the BLUE force's inflicting of casualties among the noncombatants and thus cause serious psychological damage to the BLUE forces and/or divert attention from the central BLUE force combat mission.
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Accessibility Maturity Consequence Level 1 Warning Spoofing of BLUE sensors by changing/determining key spectral components in targets. CHART 5-2 Technology Assessment: False Radio-Frequency Identification Signals Technology Observables False radio-frequency identification There are a number of suppliers of RFID (RFID)
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As you walk back and forth in front of a hologram, the image moves and you can see around it as if it were really there.4 Projection of a programmed false image could provoke BLUE forces to fire on an inappropriate target. The committee has considered scenarios in which such capabilities may become more accessible to RED forces as materials suitable for projecting and showing the images are commercialized and adapted in consumer and fashion marketing.
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© by Laser Magic Productions. FIGURE 5-2 Example of a projected three-dimensional image that appears to be floating above the hand.
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© by Laser Magic Productions. CHART 5-3 Technology Assessment: Projection of Realistic-Looking, Real-Time Optical or Infrared Images Technology Observables Projection of realistic-looking, real-time Rock concerts; entertainment industry optical or infrared images (markets that may drive technological advances in holographic imagery)
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Both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army support research in this area, advances in which could eventually lead to capabilities that enable RED force hiding.5,6 Acquisition of such technology by RED forces would enable them to spoof BLUE forces by camouflaging their appearance and making themselves harder to detect.
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Accessibility Maturity Consequence Level 3 Watch New types of stealth to enable RED forces to hide from BLUE force sensors. Welding Institute, Ltd., is being commercialized by Gentex Corporation.7 Commercially available lasers and a colorless IR-absorbing medium, used in place of a carbon black absorber, enables clear plastics to be welded.
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INEXPENSIVE SUPPLY OF RAW MATERIALS FOR CAMOUFLAGE An impediment to RED or BLUE forces' implementation of technology such as that described above is the availability of materials in sufficient quantities to be useful. To overcome this barrier, agricultural biotechnology might be used for the large-scale production of some new materials.
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2001. Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications.
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