Category Archives: War Commentary

Let’s Get Real

This is a few weeks old, but I hadn’t seen it before: “I want a realistic wargame.”

Speaking of innocents, I want a War Sim where native townsfolk stand shoulder-to-shoulder on every inch of the map and not a single bomb can be dropped without blowing 200 of them into chunks. Forget about the abandoned building wallpaper in Red Alert 2. I want to have to choose between sending marines door-to-door to be killed in the streets or leveling the block from afar, Nuns and all, with 30 carriers. I want to have to choose between 40 dead troops or 400 dead children, and be damned to Hell by chubby pundits from the safety of their studios regardless of which way I go.

[Via Jim Oberg, who adds,”I would have added, however, an accounting corps who hounded me every few days to provide precise costs of each engagement, including ammo expended.”)

Let’s Get Real

This is a few weeks old, but I hadn’t seen it before: “I want a realistic wargame.”

Speaking of innocents, I want a War Sim where native townsfolk stand shoulder-to-shoulder on every inch of the map and not a single bomb can be dropped without blowing 200 of them into chunks. Forget about the abandoned building wallpaper in Red Alert 2. I want to have to choose between sending marines door-to-door to be killed in the streets or leveling the block from afar, Nuns and all, with 30 carriers. I want to have to choose between 40 dead troops or 400 dead children, and be damned to Hell by chubby pundits from the safety of their studios regardless of which way I go.

[Via Jim Oberg, who adds,”I would have added, however, an accounting corps who hounded me every few days to provide precise costs of each engagement, including ammo expended.”)

Let’s Get Real

This is a few weeks old, but I hadn’t seen it before: “I want a realistic wargame.”

Speaking of innocents, I want a War Sim where native townsfolk stand shoulder-to-shoulder on every inch of the map and not a single bomb can be dropped without blowing 200 of them into chunks. Forget about the abandoned building wallpaper in Red Alert 2. I want to have to choose between sending marines door-to-door to be killed in the streets or leveling the block from afar, Nuns and all, with 30 carriers. I want to have to choose between 40 dead troops or 400 dead children, and be damned to Hell by chubby pundits from the safety of their studios regardless of which way I go.

[Via Jim Oberg, who adds,”I would have added, however, an accounting corps who hounded me every few days to provide precise costs of each engagement, including ammo expended.”)

If We Lose The War

…nonsense like this will be one of the reasons:

Is this what the U.S. State Department thinks America is really like? How many men, outside a tiny subset in major cities, are the primping, feminized “metrosexuals” the article lauds? Not many. You cannot enhance understanding between one people and another by presenting a false version of one side.

But more importantly, is this the way to “build bridges” between the Arab world and ourselves? Does the State Department believe that Arab males