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5 Sep 2024 11:26:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sneaky Giant  
From: somebody
Date: 26 Jul 2009 11:37:23
Message: <4a6c7833$1@news.povray.org>
"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote in message
news:4a6c5ef2@news.povray.org...
> Darren New wrote:

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

> Let me get this straight! The US government spent $250M to get some of
> their best experts to teach them some hard lessons about how their big
> expensive weaponry could be defeated by smaller cheaper craft. Then they
> chose to ignore those lessons, but published the results for any enemies
> to read?

It's much more plausible to me that the simulation/model itself that allowed
the big expensive weaponry to be defeated by motorcycles and fishing boats
was fundamentally flawed, and one smart cookie exploited the weaknesses/bugs
of the model before it got patched.


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