Great Wired article about the technology used in the Iraq war. Some vehicles are equipped with laptops connected to a network, which soldiers can use to track troop movements throughout the region. They can also access information such as battle plans, maps, and photos. I find it interesting that they used Microsoft Chat to communicate.

\”What\’s funny about using Microsoft Chat,\” he adds with a sly smile, \”is that everybody has to choose an icon to represent themselves. Some of these guys haven\’t bothered, so the program assigns them one. We\’ll be in the middle of a battle and a bunch of field artillery colonels will come online in the form of these big-breasted blondes. We\’ve got a few space aliens, too.\”