It used to be that having "intellectual" skills would help keep you from being drafted into military service. Then they started a special draft for medical professionals. Now it looks like they may start to draft geeks. This so called special skills draft would be targeted at linguists and computer experts. It would appear there is a lack of individuals with these skills in the service now.
Needing linguists is understandable, especially in the news you hear that there is a huge language barrier in the middle east. They typically must rely on locally recruited translators. I have a friend who is a linguist in the Army. He actually spends his time way back from the front lines translating communications - more of an espionage type roll.
The demand for computer experts is interesting. The way I see it they could be needed for two different roles. The first would be IT type staff to help maintain and build infrastructure. The second role would be cyberwarriors. I saw a PBS FrontLine special on Cyber-Warfare that talked about the perceived move of terrorism to the high-tech computer front. They talked a lot about a possible cyber-warrior army. . . .
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