There is nothing wrong with calling war a "game."

[MDresden]

With a game you have structure, the way things are, the way the pieces are laid out, how to conduct espionage on the enemy players.

A "game" too often to lazy people means literally "fun." What about sports games? Is that fun or is that people trying to be 100% effective in what they do?

If one side of the war sees the war as a game, he is able to structure what happens and where, with a little percentage shaved off for "chance"--rather then for it to be an "event"-type war, where you have to somehow guess where the enemy will strike next or how. With a game setup you storyboard a lot of different scenarios (think Dungeons & Dragons paper setup) and you can then choose anyone of those scenarios...completely removing any form of repetition...another possiblity of the "game" aspect. If you see it as an event-oriented true "war" there are far too many scenarios you have to react to on a daily basis and face it, humanity has been around for far too long to still have event-oriented wars. (And guerilla warfare=event-oriented war.)

Once you get your heads around war being a game you don't "wait" for a single action for anything--you already have "moves" planned out for such actions and you can follow that through to at least 3 steps. (Original action, response back, futher retaliation/response and then a final "cutback or shove" where you fall back or give it an "all out" action.)

[faye]

i have never heard of a game where children and innocent people are murdered. where a country is deliberately polluted by depleted uranium so that children are born deformed and broken dna gets passed down through families to keep them traumatised, sick, helpless and poor, for generations to come. if this for you is a 'game' then you need phychological help. you are one sick puppet.

[MDresden]

Everyone's a puppet to whoever does what the person wants. A king is puppet to his staff, a president is puppet to his cabinet (with a little authority), a CEO of a company is a puppet to share holders, etc. etc.

So who are you a puppet to? Your faith, your mosque or an ideal?

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Everyone's a puppet to whoever does what the person wants. A king is puppet to his staff, a president is puppet to his cabinet (with a little authority), a CEO of a company is a puppet to share holders, etc. etc.

So who are you a puppet to? Your faith, your mosque or an ideal?

Shes not killing people in a place that she doesnt belong in the first place, thats the difference, plain and simple.

[MDresden]

Ok, that's the difference between what she does for a living and what I do...there's no other "difference."

[Akherousin]

War is an exciting topic...excluding everyone who's been in one! Don't be surprised to find that people consider your description crass.

I do hear veterans often calling it a "business", so maybe you should start to use that euphemistic term from now on.

[faye]

Everyone's a puppet to whoever does what the person wants. A king is puppet to his staff, a president is puppet to his cabinet (with a little authority), a CEO of a company is a puppet to share holders, etc. etc.

So who are you a puppet to? Your faith, your mosque or an ideal?

there's a difference between living your life and making choices with awareness and living your life in a bubble of ignorance. thereby, there is a BIG difference, other than the fact that you have accepted a killer indoctrination, between you and i.
a puppet is someone who doesn't use his brain to work out why he is being used and by whom.

[MDresden]

So when you work for an organization as an accountant and you process funds to an offshore account you know nothing about...but you do it just because it's your job...you're a puppet?

Or how about the case where there's a mobster in town, you know it, but he comes to your eatery because you have the most fantastic food in the villa and you continue to serve him food? Are you then a puppet for him?

[faye]

you're a funny boy, dres. don't worry about the concept. it is beyond your comprehension.

[MDresden]

My signature is in regards to visa/mastercard credit cards that have been the shadow for the american dollar, in so that through proxy, the us dollar rules the world, since visa/mastercard equates to a very large percentage of daily sales worldwide.

The commercial goes about 2 random things being bought with credit cards, and then living nicely at home being "priceless."

[IamDZJ]

you of all should know better than this dresden. you have been a soldier. a game is played out of boredom. wars are meant to only be a last expedinet in the face of desperaton.

[Alchemist]

YouTube - ‪In China, A Video Game That Shoots US Troops - Call Of Duty Style Military Recruitment - COD‬‏

[MDresden]

you of all should know better than this dresden. you have been a soldier. a game is played out of boredom. wars are meant to only be a last expedinet in the face of desperaton.

After a couple years we have grown bored of all this and who are you to declare when a war should be fought?

Keep in mind, this is a global war on terror to which NATO has signed on to, which by proxy means every terrorist in the world in every country has a 'sites' on them and will until the war on terror is rescinded by the U.S. Government, and which has already been said "the WOT will not end when we eventually leave Afghanistan and Iraq."

[faye]

that video will sell better than hotcakes.

[IamDZJ]

After a couple years we have grown bored of all this and who are you to declare when a war should be fought?

Keep in mind, this is a global war on terror to which NATO has signed on to, which by proxy means every terrorist in the world in every country has a 'sites' on them and will until the war on terror is rescinded by the U.S. Government, and which has already been said "the WOT will not end when we eventually leave Afghanistan and Iraq."

you are not meant to forget. who am i to remind you not to disregard the value of human life for your entertainment? who are you to do so?