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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingBut he was too much of a gunslinger for that. On the second day of the war, he put a fleet of small boats in the Persian Gulf to track the ships of the invading Blue Team navy. Then, without warning, he bombarded them in an hour-long assault with a fusillade of cruise missiles. When Red TeamБЂ™s surprise attack was over, sixteen American ships lay at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Had Millennium Challenge been a real war instead of just an exercise, twenty thousand American servicemen and women would have been killed before their own army had even fired a shot. БЂњAs the Red force commander, IБЂ™m sitting there and I realize that Blue Team had said that they were going to adopt a strategy of preemption,БЂ«Van Riper says. БЂњSo I struck first. WeБЂ™d done all the calculations on how many cruise missiles their ships could handle, so we simply launched more than that, from many different directions, from offshore and onshore, from air, from sea. We probably got half of their ships. We picked the ones we wanted. The aircraft carrier. The biggest cruisers ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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