The Military Needs 'A Few Good Geeks'

I'm not very impressed with the Military's ability to remain fresh and exciting. "The Office" -edgy. EMO -hot. Military? Not so much so. Recall those days of Star Wars Defense?
The point has been made repeatedly that the US seeks to minimize casualties by employing technology- unmanned drones, smart bombs, lasers...(misleading hat tip= Spurious George)with the unfortunate side effect of periodically screwing up and taking out unintended citizenries. The days of two sides shooting are over, clearly now it is preferred to err on the side of killing civilians. I think we all get that.
But despite all the smart bombing and computer guided surveillance, I don't think we are getting our money's worth from the Milicrats. I think they need a Few Good Geeks.(continued)



Consider this tangent: There are all these new 'mapping programs'and the possibilities of GPS are staggering.For example, on NPR there was a discussion of the childhood practice of digging to China(because children are told that China is on the other side of the earth, of course)and the many new uses for mapping software that can track anything from breweries to what IS on the other side of the planet. Exactly.
Precise coordinates and GPS will no doubt lead exponentially to amazing things. And this is but one example.
One can use a website to create a virtual hole- it will show you via GPS coordinates exactly the other side of the earth from where you are. Often the hole opens up into the middle of the ocean, but it's an interesting game to play in your cubicle. On the one hand, we are at the cusp of technology we can't even imagine. And yet, we still pump oil from the ground and can't seem to bomb the right people.
My question is this: Why can't the Military or Security council, in addition to all these inspections, etc. make more practical use of these technologies to track the hazardous materials that could get "into the wrong hands"? When countries transport uranium for their energy needs, or accumulate cylinders, or build missiles-why not have tracking devices on everything and everyone involved (implanted into the pancreas of everyone we liberate? A GPS tracker?) so their movements show up on grids whose patterns are analyzed by computers using danger-detecting algorithms?
Their locations could be viewed and mapped with precision and available to all. We could even watch THE MOVEMENT OF TERROR during our lunch breaks. I mean, aren't inspections, like, so 2002? We actually saw a possible 'trailer'on tv that Saddam allegedly used for hiding material scary 'material'. The dude had gold toilets, but hid metal pipes in moveable trailers? No wonder they hate the influence of the West.
We have seen containers for weapons sold to Iraqis with the labels in English. (Where did they get them? Amazon?)See, private industry would never let that shit happen anymore than Jessica McClintock would have permitted 'slave labor' on her clothing tags.
So the inspectors roam around in 4x4's, looking for vats and drums?
Excuse me, but I find this type of primitive detection to be offensive in the age of Gates, Big Google, and BMW's that call their owners. Can't we do better than that? I mean, eBay is better at detecting wrong doing.
I say the military needs a healthy influx of nerds. Yes, nerds. Not people that can do x amount of push ups in y minutes. But bonafide nerds, that keep Marvel comics under their mattresses instead of porn, that do online 'role playing', and read Linux Today.
Now as the scholar Bill O'Reilly points out: we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons. If they do, terrorists will take them and use them. Or they will be gambled in a poker game. Or the leader might do an Al Pacino impression and scare us from the diplomatic table again.
Bill, why is it harder to steal a hat from the Gap than it is to steal some anthrax? Why do you not put the blame for all this tomfoolery where it lies? Squarely on the shoulders of recruiters that should be scouring the ICON conventions instead of the High School caf.