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“The current situation of the land forces is tragic, they are not ready for war. Emergency supplies are not available, exercises have stopped and the battalions have not trained in years. There is also no weapons training and education, and the army is not capable of carrying out an attack.” The former ombudsman added that technology alone is not enough to win wars. “The truth is that an imaginary reality has been created by the general staff and spread throughout the army. The soldiers have lost their motivation and fighting spirit in recent years, and many are not ready to go into battle.”

Good morning! That bit I bolded has got to be an exaggeration right? Or is the IDF just some sort of failing indoctrination program?

Uncritical support to any IDF soldiers who learn how to frag an officer.

Civ is so essentially bourgeoisie that the fundamental unit of the game are cities. The rest of the land just exists to be worked. There was a cool and hard scenario in civ4 where you played as the mongols in yurts which were both units and cities.

The real “spot the ideology” moment was in 5 they introduced “ideologies” which were, Order (communism), Autocracy (fascism), and then Freedom which had a 1800s musketmen holding a flag for a picture while the other two were clearly industrial workers and soldiers. An honest picture would’ve been an artdeco business man.

I always imagined fukuyamas book to have the twin towers on the cover.