The government will come up with some reason why the soldiers are better off with cheaper armor.
I think by the time these new technologies are readily available, we'll see a shift from public defense being prominent, to private defense being more viable. I'm not really certain about this, but according to the sociology class I took last semester, at least in Canada, private defense contractors outnumber public policing by at least a ratio of 3:1 at present day.
I think as the corporate world continues to strengthen itself relative to government, there will be a need for private contractors for whatever reason, and I can see no reason why corporately funded private defense contractors could not afford/want this kind of technology without the regulations or short-cuts taken by public defense funding. In the near future, people will pay for private defense instead of relying on shoddy public defense that's overly saturated with useless red-tape.
Apologies if I'm not making total sense, I've been formatting web code here at work for the last 4 hours and my brain is a bit scrambled.
Edited by G Snake, 19 November 2007 - 09:44 PM.
