van orkin right after this one, look, it was a real stretch that anything got repaired before the next game. the last one was called as a typhoon came in. do you really think these damaged ships ra all goi -- are all going to survive? ha ha. you had better start thinking about other ways to play this war. now, this game is unusual because the president of the war college sent a copy to warplanes with his own letter saying "read this thing." so, for my money, that made him realize that perhaps going straight into the philippines was not a real hot idea. that is a major influence by a wargame. van orkin must've made himself thoroughly unpopular because he was privately willing to say what he meant. and i can see that if he was no longer protected by the war college president, that those who have not appreciated reading these things would remember clearly. but i have no evidence of that. these are the things you see. there are no allies except for the dutch east indies. they are our friends. the australians will not attack us when we go past australia. scouting. there is a game in which o