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Thursday, 10. April 2003

POLITICS:

Future War Scenarios

"Apocalypse Soon - Nutjob Milius hired by Pentagon

John Milius is the macho, gun-obsessed, 
right-winger who wrote the script for 
Apocalypse Now. So it makes perfect sense 
that his current job is... writing 
"future war scenarios" for the Pentagon!

Some John Milius facts:
1. He wrote the line "Go ahead, make my day" 
for Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry.

2. He was the inspiration for the John Goodman 
character in The Big Lebowski 

3. Co-wrote Conan the Barbarian with famous 
lefty Oliver Stone

4. Was rejected by the army because of asthma

5. Insisted that part of his payment for writing
Jeremiah Johnson be in antique weapons."

stolen from popbitch

Well, what kind of "future war scenarios"? I started a little research and I found all these interesting army-backup-pages. You should do the same! The Pentagon is spending a million dollars a year on Hollywood consultants.

"The Pentagon agreed to fund the StoryDrive Engine project at Paramount for about $800,000, and now owns the system. Writers and producers were hired. Working alongside people designing the "Star Trek" Web site (www.startrek.com) in an office on the Paramount lot, Mr. Singer's team spent 18 months in 1998 and 1999 writing and producing.

The chief story writer was Larry Tuch, who has written episodes of "Columbo" and was a "clue writer" on the video game "Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego?" He sketched out various regional crisis scenarios that would take place in 2008: a drought in Mexico that triggers a huge influx of Mexicans into the U.S. Southwest; a Persian Gulf crisis involving the Sixth Fleet; car bombings at U.S. embassies in Tokyo and Russia; and rising tensions between Russia and NATO."

from Paramount Simulation Uses Scripts,Technology to Test Handling of Crisis by John Lipmann, The Wall Street Journal

Why are all the articles at least one year old? Some are from 1999, 2000 or 2001. No recent entries. Do we have that "future war scenario" already?

-Coming to an Army Near You by Dana Calvo, Los Angeles Times. -Pentagon Looks For High-Tech Help From Film by Andrew Pollack, New York Times, August 18, 1999 -Dramatische Algorithmen-Hollywood und das Pentagon arbeiten eng zusammen, nicht nur ideologisch, sondern vor allem auf technischem Gebiet. Simulation ist alles! von Dietmar Kammerer in der taz


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