This is because many of the technological resources of the Army are at once more expendable and more expensive than the human resources. There are a variety of new technologies available that could change the way battles are fought, particularly in cities and other situations with many obstructions and secured hiding places, for example (RDECOM 2010). But although these technologies are available, they are not infinitely available nor cheaply produced, and the Army must make a determination of where the greatest need for these technologies exists (RDECOM 2010). The limitation of human resources leads to a direct limitation of the operations the Army can carry out, and while this is partially true of technology it is more true that technology can improve the efficiency of operations, rather than rendering them possible in the first place. Given this fact, the Army necessarily views and organizes its technological resources much differently than it does its human resources. The goal of efficiency, especially in dollar terms, is high in the Army management's mind when organizing and allocating technological resources, to ensure that the financial resources of the organization as a whole will provide for all necessary operations. Technology is actually allocated at a much more strategically and practically efficient and effective level than are human resources because of this fact. Technology can be treated in ways that human beings cannot, however, and that is truly what enables the freer and more dollar-oriented allocation of technological resources; the Army could not operate organizing its human resources the same.

The human resources of the United States Army are deployed with an eye to sheer numbers per given region and/or operation, as well as with some concern for the schedules and wear on individual soldiers....

Technology, on the other hand, is deployed simply with an eye to the maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Volume is highly important in terms of human resources, that is, and while it is not unimportant when it comes to the technological resources it is certainly less so. Specific technologies are allocated with much more precise and calculated attention than human resources at times, largely because they are less interchangeable. There is also a more complex system in place for human resource organization, however, that accounts for things like leaves and promotions that re not problems for technological resources, and this is an essential difference.
The extreme differences that exist in the Army's view of its human and its technological resources are largely due to the nature of the operations that the Army engages in. All businesses and corporate entities necessarily view their technological and their human resources differently, but most companies do not have operations being conducted literally all over the globe, in some very harsh conditions. Most other corporate entities also do not have to worry about the physical safety and even the lives of its human resources, and this is goes directly to the heart of the difference that exists in the Army's different organizational schemes for its human and its technological resources.