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Letter to Col Howard Belotes -As an interested civilian who follows the war on terror, I have some feedback on Col Howard Belotes article Counterinsurgency Airpower: Air-Ground Integration for the Long War (Fall 2006). I think the key to winning an in-surgency is being able to digitize the terrorists and place them in our digital battlefield. How can we do this? By identifying everyone and tracking his or her movements in real time. That way we could track everyone except the terrorists, which would make them stand out. HowcanwedothisinIraq?Throughthecreation of a layered electronic-identification system that tracks vehicles and people through elec-tronic radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices embedded in their identification pa-pers and vehicle tags. All residents of Iraq would have RFID-embedded ID papers, driv-ers licenses, library cards, police IDs, security IDs, employee IDs, passports, visas, vehicle registrations, license plates, and so forth. By digitizing the population, we could identify anyone who doesnt belong somewhere. We could create unmanned, automated choke points throughout Baghdad, forcing vehicles and pedestrians to pass over or near sensors that could identify a particular vehicle or per-son. We could then transmit the resulting data in real time to central computers, which could process it using algorithms that pick out suspi-cious activity. We could track persons inside vehicles through triangulation of RFIDs using a three-antenna setup ...