America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen

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Post by danieltanfh95 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC

America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen
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Post by Nasrudith » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:37 PM UTC

I don't quite get why the author thinks it would be impossible to get a big budget nose-rub in the dirt to the security apparatuses about their incredible abilability to create self-fulfilling prophecies against themselves via bigotry. It isn't like it takes pentagon cooperation for history biopics, the tech is all old.

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Post by greesil » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:41 PM UTC

I doubt it's the greatest given all that's happened in the past year. But it's certainly up there, no pun intended.

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Post by magnio » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:43 PM UTC

If you wanna read an article containing essentially the same information without the pesky LLM voice: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/december/m...

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Post by danieltanfh95 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:45 PM UTC

magnio wrote: post #4

If you wanna read an article containing essentially the same information without the pesky LLM voice: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/december/m...

Unfortunately there is too much detail here for me to write more candidly.

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Post by pickleglitch » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:48 PM UTC

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Post by samlinnfer » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:50 PM UTC

pickleglitch wrote: post #6

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It's one of the classic blunders: never get involved in a land war in asia.

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Post by magnio » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:50 PM UTC

danieltanfh95 wrote: post #5

magnio wrote: post #4

If you wanna read an article containing essentially the same information without the pesky LLM voice: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/december/m...

Unfortunately there is too much detail here for me to write more candidly.

No worries, I don't mean to disparage your article. At least it avoids some of the most annoying LLMism I have seen, and given its length you must have put some effort into prompting, researching, or editing. Hope you will find your own voice as you write more and more.

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Post by stevenwoo » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

pickleglitch wrote: post #6

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The destruction of the research and development education pipeline in the USA that took 75 years to build because “college and women and minorities bad/Israel always good” was vying for the title only a few months ago.

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Post by Imustaskforhelp » Wed, May 20, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC

samlinnfer wrote: post #7

pickleglitch wrote: post #6

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It's one of the classic blunders: never get involved in a land war in asia.

unless you are Alexander the great and even then, your armies would get tired of fighting for so long for a piece of land far far away from their homeland and they would wish to get homes.