And it has only taken ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!
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Spearman Vs. Tank
If you’ve ever played any of the series of “Civilization” games, you’ll know exactly what the title of this post means — a flaw in the combat mechanism of the game that has the infuriating result of sometimes allowing a single spearman (an “ancient” unit with very little offensive or defensive strength) to defeat a tank (a “modern” unit with lots of strength), even though in the real world it would be practically impossible for that to happen.
Well, maybe not as “practically impossible” as Civvers would like to think. This blog post, from a group news blog called “The Truth Will Set You Free”, explains why the carrier-focused U.S. Navy is essentially a barrel full of sitting ducks just waiting to be blown out of the water, and how that could be taken advantage of should the Bush Administration get its way about going to war with Iran. Given the difficulties the U.S. Army has faced fighting the insurgents in Iraq, it should be self-evident that our arrogant belief in our own military superiority is itself a weakness to be exploited. Looks like it’s the Navy’s turn to learn that lesson.