TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01 - TRADOC - U.S. Army

TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01Largely, Americans enjoy access to these technologies for domestic financial and businesspurposes as well as a robust entertainment function. However, a downside to universal access toinformation technologies has emerged in the form of cyber crime. Not only does the internetenable direct fraud and theft, but it also serves to enable other criminal activities, including drugs,gambling, cyber-stalking, and pornography.Information technology affects the security environment in multiple ways. It strengthensniche ideologies and violent movements or communities of interest. It contributes to the spreadof technology and other information used by extremists, and it complicates strategiccommunications and information operations by providing multiple sources of information.Health and FitnessThe Soldiers of the future are the children of today. A simple review of any article onAmerica’s current obesity epidemic points to problems for the future Modular Force. From 1980to 2000, the number of overweight children in the U.S. tripled from five percent to 15 percent. 51In 2003, almost two thirds of high school students were not physically active during physicaleducation. While many government agencies are working to reduce or even reverse this deadlytrend, American popular culture seems less and less concerned. A 2006 study Center for DiseaseControl report highlighted the accelerated pace of obesity incidences. In 2000, 22 states reported20 percent or more of their population was clinically obese, and one state, Colorado, was at lessthan 15 percent. By 2005, all 50 states had obesity rates above 15 percent, and only three statesreported obesity rates of less than 20 percent of the population, compared to 17 states reportingover 25 percent of the population as obese (fig 2-2). 52 Overlay on these statistics the need for ourfuture Soldiers to perform in a physically demanding, emotionally stressful operatingenvironment, and the challenge the Army faces in developing Soldiers’ physical performance isreadily apparent.Figure 2-2. Obesity RatesWith a few temporary exceptions, the U.S. has enjoyed an ever-improving quality of lifethroughout its history. By some measures, this trend has slowed but has not reversed, though the43