The US Army has turned to Hollywood in its battle against terrorism
The success of the 11 September terrorist attacks depended on the failure of the military imagination. Half trained, poorly armed fanatics were able to turn commercial airplanes into bombs that collapsed the Twin Towers and blew a hole in the Pentagon because no one had ever seriously imagined that they could, or would, do such a thing. Now that we know they can, and will, the US Army is busily trying to imagine other movie-like scenarios that might occur in real life: anthrax delivered by the US Postal Service, a crop duster spraying poison over a World Series game, a nuclear explosion i...
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