| | | quote | Originally posted by olejoedad:
Watched it the other night ...... One of the worst movies I've ever watched.
Lack of discipline, lack of preparedness, lack of procedure - not a 'well oiled machine' that the world deserves.
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I wouldn't take it that way... the movie was supposed to represent a scenario in which many things did go wrong, despite preparedness. What I like about the movie in particular is how everything about it is accurate. The green suiters manning the consoles would be very serious, while the senior leadership would be a bit more lackadaisical, but still serious. There are some things missing, of course... but the accuracy of things, down to even the CAC, is what really made it great.
| | | quote | Originally posted by blackrams:
As I previously stated, the "movie" (regardless of when it was produced, was intended to send a message to those who fear our enemies about how unprepared we may be. Absolute pure  if one believes we only have the limited capability the movie suggested doesn't have a clue. Being produced when it was most likely help with funding from Soros. 
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I don't think that was the intent... it was produced by the same people who made The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, which were both pretty good movies. So, being completely honest, there are lots of capabilities that we have... but there is a very good reason why Trump is calling for the creation of "The Golden Dome" in the United States. It's something that we badly need.
https://www.economist.com/i...litary-projects-everThe two variables in this movie that are the triggers here are:
- The missile was launched in a manner that was undetectable, and we couldn't tell from whom specifically.
- We (in the movie) assumed it was a test and didn't launch enough kinetic intercepts until it was too late.
The first point is not entirely impossible. Assuming an intelligence failure, and some very advanced warhead design by our near-peer adversaries... the assumption is that they have tech we weren't prepared for. The second point of course would be possible if the launch wasn't taken seriously... and at a certain point, it literally is too late to launch an intercept, especially during reentry.
There are a lot of movies from times past where the U.S. has "failed" in sorts. If you consider the original Red Dawn, when Russia and Cuba teamed up to invade the United States. That was essentially a failure... but the movie showed the resilience of the people of the country. It doesn't bother me necessarily that the U.S. failed to intercept an ICBM in the movie... because in the end, the United States basically nukes all of our adversaries with preemptive strikes, and the assumption to be made is that our adversaries are basically completely destroyed.
