Post by S. Nada Gaem on Jul 30, 2016 16:07:08 GMT -8
A while after some kids asked "What war?" I thought up an idea for an instructive shoot-'em-up computer game.
Cooperative media, drones, and general secrecy (pun intended) have succeeded at keeping the enormity of the war effort out of sight.
The computer game would pit selections from a menu of our actual current military deployments/resources/expenditures/etc. against any military that kids might find in their history books...and do so accurately as possible. Players could "play" either or both sides. The computer play either or both sides too.
As an example, one could pit the forces and resources still in use in Iraq and/or Afghanistan against Napoleon or Hitler at their peaks. I sure wouldn't bet on any historical military now that we simply use drones to assassinate leaders.
I think it was Charlie Pierce responding to Republicans claiming that our Navy was smaller than it was a hundred years ago (presumably in boat count) by saying something like 'give me a single nuclear sub in 1916 and I'll be ruler of the world by lunchtime'. I suspect it would just take a little longer without nucs. How great is that?
If someone wants to make America Grate Again, they should ban pre-shredded cheese.