> > And your allies, of course. And... no, it was the
> time
> > before when you went for vehicles marked with big
> red
> > crosses on a white background. I suppose "if it
> moves,
> > shoot it" has the advantage of elegant simplicity.
> You mean like in WWII when the British submarine HMS
> Triton sank
> another British submarine, HMS Oxley, mistaking it
> for a German U-boat
> and received no responses to challenges?
Yeah. That kind of stuff. Only these days there's a theory that we have enough tech to be able to see what we're doing.
> Don't bitch abut the US being particularly prone to
> friendly fire in war.
I think what brought it home to me was being told that in the Gulf War, we lost more troops to American accidents than we did to the enemy. I have an idea the Americans did, too.
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