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Military history offers no shortage of examples in which imprecise thinking and terminology contributed to failure at some level; as well cases of clear and concise thought and language employed

Military history offers no shortage of examples in which imprecise thinking and terminology contributed to failure at some level; as well cases of clear and concise thought and language employed

The Patriot’s computer and human minders don’t always get it right. On March 23, a Patriot battery shot down a Royal Air Force Tornado fighter-bomber returning to Kuwait after a mission over Iraq. The two crew died.

U.S. Air Force pilots quickly lost patience with the Army missileers in 2003. One pilot flier fired a HARM anti-radar missile that destroyed a Patriot’s sensor dish but, luckily, did not harm the Army crew.