Lost Soldiers

As advances in military technology become more frequent, soldiers are presented with some drawbacks. For example the dependence of electronic equipment can prove to be a fatal liability if enemy EMP(Electro Magnetic Pulse) waves destroy all objects containing a standard microchip. The fairly recent invention of cloaking, or what some might call invisibility, can also present problems to soldiers who use it: Such as cloaked troops getting caught in cross fire because their allies can't see them, soldiers running into each other because they are unable to pinpoint the positions of one another, or simply getting lost because no one is visible. One of the problems of cloaking that deals with our in class discussion is the difficulty of locating bodies throughout war. If the bodies of soldiers cannot be visible, how are we able to locate and bring them home? Theoretically there are a number of solutions: if soldiers that are cloaked and still emit body temperature, they can be located through infrared detection; even dead bodies should emit enough body heat to be detected. Another solution is to simply assign everyone with a GPS tracking chip, this proposal provides both a tactical advantage to commanding officers, since they know the location of all their soldiers, and a solution to  locate the missing bodies on the battlefield.






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