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A story about planning for Desert Storm

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Re: A story about planning for Desert Storm

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Quite interesting. I though this would be about DART ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin... ), but I take it that this is more about front line stuff.

"Introduced in 1991, DART had by 1995 offset the monetary equivalent of all funds DARPA had channeled into AI research for the previous 30 years combined"

Thanks for the link - someone at BBN had told me a similar story, but I didn't know the name of the program.

Re: A story about planning for Desert Storm

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post #2

Quite interesting. I though this would be about DART ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin... ), but I take it that this is more about front line stuff.

Amateurs talk about killbots. Professionals train their AIs on logistics.

Re: A story about planning for Desert Storm

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Wow, I have never heard this before:

“Few people remember it, but Gorbachev was negotiating with Saddam and had successfully convinced him to pull out of Kuwait. The agreement they came up with would give the Iraqis three weeks to pull out. At this point, it had become a major goal to eliminate the Republican Guard and we didn’t want them to pull their head out of the noose, so President Bush turned down the compromise and ordered the ground forces in.”

Is that true?

Re: A story about planning for Desert Storm

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Wow, I have never heard this before: “Few people remember it, but Gorbachev was negotiating with Saddam and had successfully convinced him to pull out of Kuwait. The agreement they came up with would give the Iraqis three weeks to pull out. At this point, it had become a major goal to eliminate the Republican Guard and we didn’t want them to pull their head out of the noose, so President Bush turned down the compromi…

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Re: A story about planning for Desert Storm

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I'm shocked at the lack of humanity in this story. Every once in a while an "enemy" will start a war, and we'll get a bunch of coverage about orphans and mothers and fathers and horror, and I think maybe just maybe people will realize that all wars are terrible. Except when we start them, then I guess it's mostly kind of funny because our intelligence wasn't as great as it could have been?

Re: A story about planning for Desert Storm

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Wow, I have never heard this before: “Few people remember it, but Gorbachev was negotiating with Saddam and had successfully convinced him to pull out of Kuwait. The agreement they came up with would give the Iraqis three weeks to pull out. At this point, it had become a major goal to eliminate the Republican Guard and we didn’t want them to pull their head out of the noose, so President Bush turned down the compromi…

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Re: A story about planning for Desert Storm

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Wow, I have never heard this before: “Few people remember it, but Gorbachev was negotiating with Saddam and had successfully convinced him to pull out of Kuwait. The agreement they came up with would give the Iraqis three weeks to pull out. At this point, it had become a major goal to eliminate the Republican Guard and we didn’t want them to pull their head out of the noose, so President Bush turned down the compromi…

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