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95 outta 100...BOM was textbook in the importance of secure communications

Codebreakers cracked PURPLE, which in turn allowed USN Intelligence to know where JRN planned on attacking. If you know when and where your enemy will attack, you dictate the terms of the battle.

I give it 95 out of 100 because you never know when a patrol plane is blown off course and wanders onto the OPFOR fleet and gets a radio message off before being blotted from the sky.

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Posted: 06/07/2016 at 5:04PM

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