What, that custom version of Halo didn’t help?
“The enemy we’re fighting is a bit different than the one we war-gamed against.”
-Lt. Gen. William Wallace, the Army’s senior ground commander
All of these “Oh my god! They’re fighting back!” reactions make me think of the Revolutionary War, when the British were running around saying stuff like “They’re fighting in the trees! They’re not in formation! And they don’t even have uniforms on! What sort of barbarians are they?”
(I just remembered: in fact the U.S. military does have a custom version of Halo. It’s called “America’s Army,” and it cost more than $6 million to develop. Your tax dollars at work.)
By “custom version of Halo” you of course mean a first person shooting game, not an actual custom version of Halo.
Not like the actual custom version of Doom which the Marines used.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.04/ff_doom.html
Or the rumors about Atari’s Battlezone, for that matter.
http://coinop.org/kb_dl.aspx/kb/gametech/armybattlezone.html
The revolutionary war is exactly what I’m thinking of too. We have become the British.
We have become the British, except we think everyone should like us.