[OT] Something that made me look twice

Not to go on about the war but just reading the BBC website and came across
this comment:

Quote from General William Wallace, (should be in a Scottish unit:)
"The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed
against," he told The Washington Post.

So what system do they use? Jon you haven't got them testing FMA have you?:)

Jeremey

LOL - that would be some play test group ;)

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With kind regards

> Germy wrote:

> Quote from General William Wallace, (should be in a Scottish unit :)

Dunno what they use for the larger-scale simulations, but low-level
stuff
is often done in TacOps... FMA:S would be *way* too low-level though <g>

Another pearl I saw on TankNet today, allegedly from Sky News:

"Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK defence minister Geoff Hoon
said in The Commons yesterday.

"He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr" says a
British Squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr. Another soldier added: "There's no beer,
no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth."

Later,

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:30:26 +0100 Oerjan Ohlson
> <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> writes:
<snip>
> Another pearl I saw on TankNet today, allegedly from Sky News:

LOL! I bet the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce loved that one!

Gracias,

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:30:26 +0100 Oerjan Ohlson
> <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> writes:
<snip>

To bring out an old saw:

Amateurs study tactics, Professionals study logistics.

Not 100% of the story but extremely important.  And V-e-r-y B-o-r-i-n-g.

Although it would certainly be instructive in some cases. "I'm sorry Leutenent
(spelling??), but your force DID succeed their mission objectives very nicely
after your death..."

Showing my ex-NCO prejudices there...

Gracias,