Not that you needed another reason to be totally stoked about Live Free or Die Hard coming out this weekend, but I thought I'd fuel the fire anyway: According to this New York Times article, the movie was inspired by John Carlin's 1997 story in WIRED, "A Farewell to Arms".
Carlin's story runs thusly: Countries conduct their battles over information now, rather than with guns and armor. Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese strategist and philosopher, calls this "soft strike" warfare -- for example, using propaganda control instead of violence.
Drawing any parallels is impossible, since I haven't seen the movie and the NY Times refuses to describe LFORDH's plot beyond calling it "logic-defying." Hmm, well, "A Farewell to Arms" is entirely plausible...so where would LFORDH get its implausibility? Perhaps its blazing wisecracking explosion-filled goodness is SO AWESOME YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT????
Oh man. So stoked.
