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DATE World
The Decisive Action Training Environment, or DATE World, is a fictional universe created by the U.S. Army to serve as a medium for training the U.S. Military and its allies. It is an alternate history of Earth with a similar, but distinctly different political geography. Certain areas of the world are nearly identical to real life, while others contain entirely made-up countries, each with its own detailed political, social, economic, and military structures. The reason for maintaining a complex fictional universe is said to be that "real-world countries cannot be an adversarial country".
Article summary
The Decisive Action Training Environment, or DATE World, is a fictional universe created by the U.S. Army to serve as a medium for training the U.S. Military and its allies. It is an alternate history of Earth with a similar, but distinctly different political geography. Certain areas of the world are nearly identical to real life, while others contain entirely made-up countries, each with its own detailed political, social, economic, and military structures. The reason for maintaining a complex fictional universe is said to be that "real-world countries cannot be an adversarial country".
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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