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WarGames had some pretty farfetched strategies in its final scenes. I'm attempting to enumerate them here. I'm rather surprised that none of these ended with a winner. I'd like to think that we could handle any domestic issues in Greenland without a full-blown thermonuclear exchange, but I suppose it ''was'' the 80s. | WarGames had some pretty farfetched strategies in its final scenes. I'm attempting to enumerate them here. I'm rather surprised that none of these ended with a winner. I'd like to think that we could handle any domestic issues in Greenland without a full-blown thermonuclear exchange, but I suppose it ''was'' the 80s. | ||
[[File:Greenland_maximum.png|thumb|right|We can be thankful that we came no closer to a Greenland Maximum]] | |||
I went ahead and did the frame-by-frame analysis so you wouldn't have to: | |||
https://nick-black.com/images/wargames_strategies/ | |||
* US First Strike | * US First Strike | ||
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* NATO / Warsaw Pact | * NATO / Warsaw Pact | ||
* Far East Strategy | * Far East Strategy | ||
* US/USSR | * US/USSR Escalation | ||
* India-Pakistan War | * India-Pakistan War | ||
* Mediterranean War | * Mediterranean War | ||
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* Northern Mayhem | * Northern Mayhem | ||
* Syrian Surprise | * Syrian Surprise | ||
* | * Tunisian Incident | ||
* SEATO Takeover | * SEATO Takeover | ||
* Hawaiian Escalation(!) | * Hawaiian Escalation(!) | ||
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* Cuban Minimal | * Cuban Minimal | ||
* Chad Thrust | * Chad Thrust | ||
* Brazilian Strike | |||
* Venezuelan Sudden | |||
* Malaysian Alert | |||
* Israel Discretionary | |||
* Libyan Action | |||
* Iceland Escalation | * Iceland Escalation | ||
* Vietnamese Retaliation | * Vietnamese Retaliation | ||
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* Taiwan Domestic | * Taiwan Domestic | ||
* Algerian Sovereignty | * Algerian Sovereignty | ||
* Atlantic Sudden | |||
* Mongolian Thrust | |||
* Polish Decoy | |||
* Alaskan Discretionary | |||
* Canadian Thrust(!!!!) | |||
* Cypress Maneuver | |||
* Egypt Misdirection | |||
* Bangladesh Thrust | |||
* Kenya Defense | |||
* Burmese Containment | |||
* Asian Theaterwide | |||
* Bulgarian Clandestine | |||
* Greenland Maximum | |||
==Corrections== | ==Corrections== | ||
* (*) Thanks to Sean Caulfield for this correction! | * (*) Thanks to Sean Caulfield for this correction! | ||