Rand Corporation Plays Simulated Military War Game and Predicts W.O.P.R Sized Smack-down For the U.S.

Rand Corporation just ran its WWIII Wargame simulation and concluded The Home of the Brave and Land of the Free gets a smack-down by China and Russia. 

“In our games, when we fight Russia and China, blue gets its ass handed to it" -- RAND Analyst David Ochmanek

Well, Dave - maybe you guys at Rand should should review results from the old WOPR simulator war games of 1983.  The final result of the simulated war game was "No Winner" with analysis being "A Strange Game. The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play. How About a Nice Game of Chess."

The wasteland analysts at Vault 9 presented some notes on the article:

• The word "nuclear" or "nukes" was not mentioned in the ZeroHedge article.

The term Missile was mentioned 3 times:

• Russia and China develop fifth-generation fighters and hypersonic missiles.
• The US has 58 Brigade Combat Teams across the continent but doesn't have anti-air and missile-defense capabilities required to handle a barrage of missiles from Russia. 

Any war game scenario where the final result is the U.S. getting an ass kicking should probably include the use of nuclear weapons because I'm pretty sure we aren't going down without pushing a few buttons.

Hey Rand Corporation - the 80's called and said are you MAD?! (Mutual Assured Destruction).  Even the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Chief said doctrine of 'mutually assured destruction' is good for another 10 years.

Maybe push the reset button and run that simulation again and this time include Atari's Combat (1977) with legendary tank pong mode and include a few levels of Atari's kick-ass Simulated Military War game - Missile Command (1980).