Ender's Game Influences US Army Training

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...

Comments

Re:Hmm

[Bugmaster]

Exactly. The article mentions how cool Ender was and how he "Saved the world", and suggests that someday our soldiers can be as cool. Unlike Ender, the Army and the media have no problem whatsoever with exterminating an entire species, should we desire to do so. Ender had to be tricked into fighting because of his ethics; the media, on the other hand, cannot even understand what ethics are. "Saving the world" sounds much cooler anyway.

Re:Grow up! War isn't a video game

[MikeFM]

Take your pick of third world camel fucking terrorist fighters and send him on over. He can use sticks or stones or his choice of machete. I'll use a self-targeting automatic rifle (a minor toy that I've actually built) and we'll see who wins. He may be a tougher SOB but he'll still be the one that winds up dead because A.) my weapon will lock in on his body heat and movement and cap his sorry ass and B.) because I can be 1000 miles away from my weapon so there is little chance of his sorry ass capping me. Who cares how good you are if you still lose.

Iraq could be ours already.. with no lose of human life on our side.. none at all.. if we weren't trying to be nice guys and protect the average Iraqi citizen. We could have leveled the whole damn contry remotely. We could have won the war that very first day. All the slum living of the whole damn Iraqi nation wouldn't have meant shit. Lucky for the average Joe over there that is more or less innocent that we would rather cause as little harm to him as possible.