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Ender's Game Influences US Army Training

Posted by chrisd on from the and-demosthenes-for-our-foreign-policy dept.

PortWineBoy writes "Although we've been bombarded in the last few weeks with techno tales of the U.S. Army, I found this story in the NY Times (FRRYYY) to be quite interesting. The director of the Army's simulation technology center said that Ender's game influenced how and what they will build for future training." Begin Mazer Rackham Analogies...

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  1. Re:ummm by Alsee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    tactics and ingenuity they have shown has been superior to everyone expectations

    Yeah, a car bomb with a pregnant woman inside sure is ingenious.

    Using schools, hospitals, mosques, and historical sites sure are superior tactics.

    Hint: sarcasm.

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  2. Re:Leadership by mcramer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's also on the U.S. Naval Academy's reading list for prospective Marine Corps officers.

    I find it very amusing that a book filled with homosexual symbolism is on the reading lists for our country's premier homophobic organizations.

  3. Re:What I remember of Ender's Game. by maxpublic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If the views of the common soldier are somehow psychically warped into a borg-like collective by their commanding officers, then the fact that King George rules America terrifies me all the more. Now I *know* my army will gladly take to the streets and kill American citizens with wild abandon, so long as someone in power labels them 'terrorists' first.

    That is, if my self-serving, self-righteous, brain-dead fellow citizens don't do me in first for holding views contrary to their Holy Leader.

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  4. Re:Grow up! War isn't a video game by teaserX · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    > "These people, terrorists, are the shit..."

    I dare ya to leave your dynamite vest at home and come say that to my face...pussy.

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  5. Re:Grow up! War isn't a video game by Mac+Degger · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And where was the US when this kind of stuff happened in Rwanda?

    You can only claim morality when you are consistent. Otherwise you're oppertunistic.

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