{"id":90259,"date":"2019-05-04T02:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T09:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-otso-incident-with-donovia-in-2030"},"modified":"2019-05-04T02:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T09:02:34","slug":"the-otso-incident-with-donovia-in-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-otso-incident-with-donovia-in-2030","title":{"rendered":"The Otso Incident with Donovia in 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-otso-incident-with-donovia-in-20304.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u201cIf we don\u2019t study the mistakes of the future, we\u2019re doomed to repeat them the first time :(\u201d<\/i><\/b> \u2014 Ken M, comedian.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> Today\u2019s blog post is an excerpt from <strong>Mr. Robert J. Hranek<\/strong>\u2019s short story entitled \u201cAngry Engineer,\u201d submitted to the <strong>2019 Mad Scientist Science Fiction Writing Contest<\/strong>. The underlying premise of this contest was that, following months of strained relations and covert hostility with its neighbor Otso, Donovia launched offensive combat operations against Otso on 17 March 2030. Donovia is a wealthy nation that is a near-peer strategic competitor of the United States. The U.S. is a close ally of Otso and is compelled to intervene due to treaty obligations and historical ties. Among the many future innovations addressed in his short story, Mr. Hranek includes a \u201cpre-mortem\u201d in the form of two dozen lessons learned, identifying potential \u201cmistakes of the future\u201d regarding the Battle for Otso, so that we\u2019re not \u201cdoomed to repeat them the first time!\u201d Enjoy!]<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. responded to Donovia\u2019s invasion of Otso by initiating combat operations against the aggressors on 1 April 2030 \u2014 April Fools\u2019 Day. Thousands of combatants died on both sides, mostly on ships; hundreds more were wounded, primarily from the land battle, and an unverifiable number of casualties occurred worldwide due to the sabotage of power grids and other infrastructure. An accurate civilian count was impossible in the chaos of reestablishing power, computer, and financial systems worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil\/141-the-otso-incident-with-donovia-in-2030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t study the mistakes of the future, we\u2019re doomed to repeat them the first time :(\u201d \u2014 Ken M, comedian. [Editor\u2019s Note: Today\u2019s blog post is an excerpt from Mr. Robert J. Hranek\u2019s short story entitled \u201cAngry Engineer,\u201d submitted to the 2019 Mad Scientist Science Fiction Writing Contest. The underlying premise of this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,45,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-finance","category-geopolitics","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}