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The US military is a far and away the most powerful and efficient in the world. However, as with any government ‘run’ organisation, there are serious problems. Increasingly, private citizens and enterprises are working to circumvent some of those problems:-

“Problem: If a cop in Anytown, USA, pulls over a suspect, he checks the person's ID remotely from the squad car. He's linked to databases filled with Who's Who in the world of crime, killing and mayhem. In Iraq, there is nothing like that. When our troops and the Iraqi army enter a town, village or street, what they know about the local bad guys is pretty much in their heads, at best.

“Solution: Give our troops what our cops have. The Pentagon knows this. For reasons you can imagine, it hasn't happened.

“This is a story of can-do in a no-can-do world, a story of how a Marine officer in Iraq, a small network-design company in California, a nonprofit troop-support group, a blogger and other undeterrable folk designed a handheld insurgent-identification device, built it, shipped it and deployed it in Anbar province. They did this in 30 days, from Dec. 15 to Jan. 15. Compared to standard operating procedure for Iraq, this is a nanosecond.”

The US charity Spirit of America is heavily involved in this operation, as they are in a large range of worthy projects that aim to spread freedom and democracy in some of the world’s worst places. Spirit of America is one of the very few charities I have come across to which I am willing to give money. Most charities involved in apparently good works also work to spread socialism and other forms of chaos - for example Greenpeace. Spirit of America does not.