See the 8-year-old girl that was made army chief for 10 mins

The future belongs to the children of this generation. The earlier that fact is known and accepted, the better it will be for us when it comes to grooming and preparing them for the future.

They are the ones who will take the reins from us when we no longer have the strength to jump and move around. Investing in their future is a way of ensuring our grey days are taken care of, for our toil and pains will amount to no gain if they lay to ruin all we have ever worked for.

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Angel Tyra Muwanguzi is an 8-year-old girl who was given a chance to look into the future when she was made the army chief in Uganda. Young Muwanguzi replaced General Katumba Wamal, Uganda's chief of defense forces. She ruled as the chief for 10 minutes.

This is an interesting thing because the pupil of Train Up a Child primary school in Bugolobi was able to have an idea of what being in power feels like.

The scheme was put in place in order to encourage children and show women that everything is possible. They can soar to whatever height they want to in as much as they have what it takes to fly and they are ready to. This was done to inspire women so they could operate on the same frequency as the men.

Muwanguzi's assumption of office was done to commemorate the International day of the girl child. The event was organised by Ugandan wing of Plan International in conjunction with Gals Forum International, a local NGO.

Even though this program was done to inspire and motivate the upcoming generation, it is an event that will have a lasting impact on the girls who have the opportunity to assume official positions.

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Raquelina Langa had a swell time experience when she asked United Nation's secretary general, Ban Ki-moon if a girl like her could be in his position. In 2014, she had the opportunity to become the UN secretary general for a whole day. It is quite sad to know that the Mozambican young girl passed on early this year.

The Most Realistic Military Science Fiction

Military science fiction has often explored the ethical and cultural effects of war in the future. Here's a guide to some notable entries in the field that do the best job depicting realistic warfare.

Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein

When one thinks of military science fiction, Robert Heinlein's classic novel Starship Troopers is often the first to come to mind. It paved the way for a lot of military science fiction, but it did that by going beyond the battlefield - this story extends military culture from the lives of the soldiers, to the root causes of the story's conflict. Heinlein even explores how the culture became militant in the first place.

We follow Juan Rico, a member of the Mobile Infantry, a powered-armour infantry unit that is deployed in the war against an insect based species known as the Bugs, watching him emerge from training to engage in battlefield combat. The story alternates between Rico's military life and flashbacks to his life beforehand and the training that he underwent, all the while serving to explore several political theories of civic responsibility and military ethics.

Cobra Trilogy, Timothy Zahn

Timothy Zahn is known far more for his Star Wars novels, but he has written extensively in the science fiction realm, especially in military SF. Some of his best books have included the Conqueror's Trilogy and Blackcollar, but what springs to mind first is his Cobra series. These books follow a group of soldiers known as Cobras, who have been augmented to pack a greater punch on the battlefield. Rather than exploring the battlefield abilities of these soldiers, Zahn looks to their lives after the war and how they adapt, as the modifications that they receive are permanent.

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game is another of the prominent works of military SF. It follows Andrew 'Ender' Wiggen as humanity is fighting a far off and seemingly unstoppable insectoid race. Andrew and other children are selected for an orbital school that is designed to turn them into the leaders who will lead Earth to victory. Unlike other books, which focus on combat, Ender's Game largely focuses on the command and strategy level of warfare, as Ender proves to be a brilliant subject, and eventually takes command of Earth's forces as they travel closer to the enemy's home planet.

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel The Forever War explores both combat and culture. Earth is engaged in an interstellar war, and the story's hero, William Mandella, is recruited to fight far from home. After a period of training, they travel to the battlefield at faster-than-light-speeds. But this subjects the soldiers to relativity: They arrive to find themselves outgunned on the battlefield, and return to find a very different Earth than when they left. Where Starship Troopers is considered to be fairly pro-military, The Forever War was written in the aftermath of Vietnam (Haldeman was a veteran) and is largely seen as an anti-war novel.

Old Man's War, John Scalzi

Published in 2005, John Scalzi's novel Old Man's War was nominated for a Hugo Award and Scalzi followed up with two sequels. The story follows John Perry, a seventy-five-year-old who enlists in the Colonial Defence Forces, and begins a military career that leaves him an experienced soldier and leader. But over the course of the carnage, he is left to wonder whether the bloodshed is really worth it. The book has been compared to both The Forever War and Starship Troopers.

Broken Angels, Richard K. Morgan

Broken Angels is the second book in the trio of Takeshi Kovacs novels penned by UK author Richard K. Morgan. Unlike the first book of the three, which had more of a detective-noir feel, we are now thrust into the military background of Morgan's starring character, Takeshi Kovacs. Kovacs is serving with a mercenary unit when he is contracted to help protect an expedition that has uncovered a Martian artifact located in the middle of a war zone. Morgan applies his own twists to the genre. Unlike other military science fiction books, Morgan doesn't look at the themes of warfare, but instead at mercenary and corporate military units, as well as the individual conduct of the soldiers.

Armour, John Steakley

Armour has been compared to Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers. The title refers to the powered armour that the soldiers in the story use (to fight insectoid aliens), but also refers to the psychological effects of war. The story's hero, Felix, is put into battle again and again, surviving against incredible odds, but finds that these battles take an incredible toll.

Wess'Har Wars, Karen Traviss

Karen Traviss's Wess'Har series spans six books (City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, Ally and Judge) and begins in the near future, before jumping ahead several hundred years. Traviss' protagonist, Shan Franklin, is a police officer who is sent to the world Cavanagh's Star, to recover a colony that had been sent there. There, accompanied by a unit of Royal Marines, they meet several new alien races, and become embroiled in a massive conflict that humanity is dragged into as well.

This series works well because of Traviss' restraint. While these books feature combat, they are mainly political and ethical in nature, dealing with genocide and the limits of warfare. Particularly interesting is that Traviss' books don't necessarily take the side of humanity; she explores a number of other races and their motivations for going to war.

Vatta's War Cycle, Elizabeth Moon

Vatta's War is a series of five books by Elizabeth Moon that follow Kylara Vatta after she is drummed out of a military academy and thrust into the family business of transporting goods. But there is combat: she fights battles with pirates and mercenaries, while working to defend her family and livelihood. Over the course of the series, threats mount and Ky is forced to take command of a task force to defend against a massive pirate armada.

Probability Moon, Nancy Kress

Probability Moon is the first book a trilogy where Earth is (surprise!) fighting against an alien race that has them outmatched. This book deals with the discovery of an alien artifact that can help turn the tide of the war in humanity's favour. What is interesting about these books is that they follow a select number of characters outside of the military who have to interact with a society that is increasingly under the control of military forces. Kress also deals with military tactics that conform to physics, which is a nice change in general.

X-Wing Series, Michael A. Stackpole / Aaron Allston

I wasn't going to approach any elements of the Star Wars franchise, but I couldn't really justify leaving off Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston's 9 book X-Wing series, which deals largely with space battles. This series stands out, because it gives us a strong sense of military culture, jargon and environment as we get to know the Rogue and Wraith Squadrons.

Army to Start Fielding New Jungle Boots Next Year

U.S. Army officials say they're racing to find and start issuing new jungle boots to combat soldiers by late next year.

The service just released a request for information from companies as part of a "directed requirement" for a new model of Jungle Combat Boot for infantry soldiers to wear in the hot, tropical terrain of the Pacific theater.

"It's a challenge to industry to say, 'What can you do based on here are the requirements that we need and how fast can you deliver it to meet these specifications,' " Col. Dean Hoffman IV, who manages Project Manager Soldier Protection and Individual Equipment, said Wednesday at the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting.

The Army's formal requirement for a new type of Jungle Combat Boot will continue to go through the normal acquisitions process, but equipment officials plan to award contracts for new jungle boots next year to meet a recent directive from Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley that two brigade combat teams in Hawaii be equipped "ASAP," Hoffman said.

"We are going to use this request for information to see what industry can do really fast because what we would like to do is get a BCT out by March of 2017," he said.

Equipment officials hope to have a second BCT fielded with new jungle boots by September 2017," according to the Oct. 3 document posted on FedBizOpps.gov.

The Army and the Marine Corps retired the popular, Vietnam War-era jungle boots in the early 2000s when both services transitioned to a desert-style combat boot for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Since then, Army equipment development has been geared toward the Middle East, Hoffman said.

"We have kind of neglected the extreme weather environments, whether it be jungle or cold weather," Hoffman said. "Looking at the way the world is shaping, those are areas that we might have to go."

The Army recently conducted limited user evaluations of several commercial-off-the-shelf, or COTS, jungle boots in Hawaii.

"We put them on soldiers, let them wear them for a couple of weeks and got feedback," Hoffman said. "What that showed at that time was there was no COTS solution."

The Army is looking for lightweight materials and better insole and midsole construction, he said.

The problem with the old jungle boots was they had a metal shim in the sole for puncture protection that made the boots get too hot or too cold depending on the outside temperature, Hoffman said.

There are new fabrics that could offer some puncture protection for insoles as well as help push water out of the boot through drain holes, equipment officials say.

The two drain holes on the old jungle boots often became clogged with mud, Hoffman said, adding that newer designs that feature several smaller drain holes tend to be more effective.

The new jungle boots will likely be made of rough-out leather, which tends to dry out quickly and doesn't need to be shined, he said.

To outfit two brigades, the Army plans to buy 36,000 pairs of new jungle boots, but contracts may be awarded to multiple vendors, Hoffman said.

"If six vendors meet the requirements, we might just award six contracts because, at the end of the day, we want to meet the requirements," he said.

Syrian Army enters key military base in southern Aleppo

Aleppo, Syria (12:00 A.M.) – The Syrian Armed Forces continued their counter-offensive against the Jaysh Al-Fateh (Army of Conquest) jihadists in southern Aleppo on Sunday, targeting the strategic Artillery Academy, Al-Ramouseh Roundabout, and 1070 Al-Hamdaniyah Housing Project.

Led by the Tiger Forces, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) managed to seize the Al-Ramouseh Roundabout and Bridge earlier today after a fierce battle with the jihadist rebels that lasted for only a few hours.

Following the capture of the Al-Ramouseh Bridge and Roundabout, the Tiger Forces and their allies stormed the Aleppo Artillery Academy, striking this imperative military installation from its northern wing.

According to a military source in the Aleppo Governorate, the Syrian Armed Forces managed to infiltrate Jaysh Al-Fateh’s front-line defenses and enter the Artillery Academy after a grueling battle this afternoon.

The Syrian Armed Forces are still attacking the Artillery Academy after capturing a few points inside; however, they have dissipated the intensity of their assault in favor of the Russian airstrikes that are currently pounding the jihadist rebels in southern Aleppo.