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    • Environmental deal struck to allow Navy sonar for war games

      Posted by Billbar from Honolulu Star Bulletin

      The world's largest naval war games will go on as planned, with the 35 warships from the United States and seven Pacific Rim countries allowed to use active sonar. Yesterday, a federal court in California approved a settlement that requires safeguards, including a 25-mile sonar-free buffer zone around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument recently created by President Bush, and significant increases in monitoring for marine mammals during sonar drills.

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    • Overconfidence is a disadvantage in war, finds study

      Posted by Billbar from Codylyonblogolater.blogspot

      Research on how people approach a computer war game backs up a theory that “positive illusions” may contribute to costly conflicts. “It supplies critically needed experimental support for the idea that positive attitude - which is generally a [beneficial] feature of human behaviour - may lead to overconfidence and [damaging] behaviour in the case of war,” comments Peter Turchin of the University of Connecticut.

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