


While Said’s report does not find individual fault or recommend discipline, officials said commanders may decide to take administrative actions once they review his report.Half-Life: The Seven-Hour War by Valve and Bad RobotĪfter the Black Mesa Incident brought the Xen creatures to Earth, a new dimensional threat looms on the horizon. Said’s review concluded that officials made their initial assessments too quickly and did not do enough analysis. Said also recommended that the military improve its procedures to ensure that children and other innocent civilians are not present before launching a time-sensitive strike.įor days after the strike, Pentagon officials asserted that it had been conducted correctly, despite mounting reports that multiple civilians and children had died and growing doubts that the car contained explosives. The report says using a so-called “red-team” in such self-defense strikes that are being done quickly might help avoid errors. The review recommends that the military have personnel present with a strike team whose job it is to actively question such conclusions. The official said the review recommends that more be done to prevent what military officials call “confirmation bias” - the idea that troops making the strike decision were too quick to conclude that what they were seeing aligned with the intelligence and confirmed their conclusion to bomb what turned out to be the wrong car. The Seven Hour War was a brief, but decisive confrontation between the Combine and the governments of Earth, ultimately leading to a large human death toll and the Combine occupation of the entire planet. The report, which has been endorsed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, made several recommendations that have been passed on to commanders at US Central Command and US Special Operations Command.
