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From: wyvern@agora.hf.intel.com (Scott Sanford)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: "Computer Models Leave U.S. Leaders Sure of Victory"
Keywords: Iraq, Kuwait, MIT, Brookings, war game, computer, modelling
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Date: 28 Dec 90 03:16:55 GMT
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From: wyvern@agora.hf.intel.com (Scott Sanford)
jon@cs.washington.edu writes:
  (A long newspaper article deleted.)

  This article worries me.  (I was going to bring it over when I saw it on
comp.risks, but found it had already been posted.)  Does anyone know what
methods are being used to calculate the combat values, and whether anything
other than simple strength is taken into account?
  I am reminded of a simulation in which I once participated with similar
mechanics; my side lost the war game because the opposition used their naval
power on us...hundreds of miles inland.

  "As capabilities rise, system storage       -wyvern@agora.hf.intel.com
capacity...will increase beyond the normal
user's ability to fill it."  -GURPS Cyberpunk, p67