Reposted by Dan Federman
YIMBY Action leads are voting on a recommendation for Prop 45 today. If you or any of your friends are on the fence, I highly recommend reading this great thread.
Tl;dr: AB130 already exempted infill housing from CEQA. Prop 45 would just open the floodgates for sprawl.
![Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02) was a major war game exercise conducted by the United States Armed Forces under United
States Joint Forces Command in mid-2002, running from 24 July to 15 August. The exercise involved both live exercises and computer simulations, costing US$250 million (equivalent to about $448M in 2025), the most expensive war game in US military history.!!]
MCO2 was set in 2007, intended to be a test of future military "transformation" —a transition towards new technologies that enabled network-centric warfare, and providing a more effective command and control of current and future weaponry and tactics. The simulated combatants were the United States, referred to as "Blue", and a fictitious state in the Persian Gulf, "Red", often characterized as Iran or Iraq.
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![MC02 was an experiment mandated by Congress in 2000 to "explore critical war fighting challenges at the operational level of war that will confront United States joint military forces after 2010."[4] The simulation took two years of planning and involved 13,000 troops. The Red force, led by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, used numerous asymmetrical tactics unanticipated by the Blue force; a pre-emptive cruise missile attack sank sixteen Blue
warships and led to the exercise's suspension.
The simulation was restarted with Blue forces fully restored, and Red forces heavily constrained from free-play "to the point where the end state was scripted", 4) resulting in a Blue victory. Van Riper later criticized the cost of the exercise as "wasted". [5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qyqbfjkwwohghps2bbknj4ni/bafkreifmtw3iri7x2b3hrnsh3zrc3ey5mackuarvefvt3n7itvkkkqmfvm)
![Exercise suspension and restart
At this point, the exercise was suspended, Blue's ships were "re-floated", and the rules of engagement were changed; this was later justified by General Peter Pace as follows: "You kill me in the first day and I sit there for the next 13 days doing nothing, or you put me back to life and you get 13 more days' worth of experiment out of me. Which is a better way to do it?"[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qyqbfjkwwohghps2bbknj4ni/bafkreic7u3cnzyoxlqlrmu5cmnyuduqzwmjpltmfj6af6gp43kxbz7vy2i)
