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What’s the US gonna do? Slink away in the middle of the night again?

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    There were some legitimate problems with the millennium challenge but it’s still funny how it made them look bad and bootlickers get mad if you talk about it

    • CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      IIRC the marine general who played as Iran was basically trying to find every rules exploit he could think of because nobody would listen to him when he pointed out that the game was broken, but there is a pretty big overlap between the tactics he employed and what successful US resistances have used.

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        He was doing stuff like using simulated motorcycles to deliver messages by courier to get around the information blockade, and risky mass attacks to overwhelm individual ships.

        This was deemed unrealistic, because… I dunno, Americas enemies would never be desperate enough to use unconventional tactics? There was a legitimate complaint in him being able to negate some of the systems by having inside knowledge of their workings, but at the same time you should probably be prepared for your enemies to have some sort of intelligence on you and your tactics.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah its been ages since I looked up the details but that does sound super familiar to what I kinda remember. And of course being the closest to the old school nobility officer corps the navy brass was pissed off about it when it happened.