History Headscratchers / CallOfDutyGhosts

** He could've figured they would see him as an ordinary soldier and father and not attempt to follow in his footsteps and join the Ghosts.

** I believe that the devs read statement "Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world" and extrapolated the erroneous corollary "it therefore has a navigable connection to the ocean."

* What was so special about the Ghosts that Elias felt it was necessary to keep it a secret from his sons that he was one?

** The use of the word 'destruction' might be an exaggeration, but a major war in the Middle East that involved a nuclear exchange would probably leave much of the world's oil supply destroyed or otherwise unobtainable. No oil = economic disaster. Ecologically, its hard to say what the effects would be without details.

** The use of the word 'destruction' might be an exaggeration, but a major war in the Middle East that involved a nuclear exchange would probably leave much of the world's oil supply destroyed or otherwise unobtainable. No oil = economic disaster. Ecologically, its hard to say what the effects would be without details.
* So Rorke's plan was to get captured by the Ghosts, have the Feds rescue him (and rip off The Dark Knight Rises in the process), but no other real objective?

** The use of the word 'destruction' might be an exaggeration, but a major war in the Middle East that involved a nuclear exchange would probably leave much of the world's oil supply destroyed or otherwise unobtainable. No oil = economic disaster. Ecologically, its hard to say what the effects would be without details.

*** 2. The United States has just violated the Outer Space Treaty and placed a weapon into space which could be used to destroy much of South America. This seems like somewhat of a threat to the balance of power, and is extra scary when the nation who owns this weapon has recently decided it was a good idea to assassinate the leader of the Federation.

* Is it ever definitively explained what happened to the Middle East? [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Was it global warming? Nuclear war? Card games?]] Also, one would think that the destruction of an entire region of the planet would have [[ApocalypseHow major ecological effects]] beyond the loss of the oil, or receive more consideration than simply "BTW, the Middle East is toast."]

* Is it ever definitively explained what happened to the Middle East? [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Was it global warming? Nuclear war? Card games?]] Also, one would think that the destruction of an entire region of the planet would have [[ApocalypseHow major ecological effects]] beyond the loss of the oil, or receive more consideration than simply "BTW, the Middle East is toast."

* What the hell did the Ghosts even need Rorke for? The entire endgame situation and the Las Vegas incident could have been entirely avoided if they had just ''shot him'' when they came in.

** Another possibility is that they are using up most if not all of the missiles to destroy the federation military. Unless the U.S. does a conquest of South America i dont see them having the resources to refill the weapon.

** Who says they are not going to? We only had enough time to see them fire the weapon to destroy federation military power. Its smarter to destroy their means of resistance before dealing retaliation.

* So at the end of the game what exactly is stopping the United States from[[spoiler: using the Loki satellites to basically lay waste to every single major Federation city from Orbit? It seems that with the US in control of Loki and the world apparently not that concerned about major American border cities and 27 million American civilian deaths in an unjustifiable war crime, not many people would shed a tear if South America was a pile of ash when it's all said and done. Even if doing so would elicit a retaliatory Federation response with any other means they had left, I very much doubt it would matter as seeing with their initial senseless slaughter there's no such thing as Mutually-Assured-Destruction with them anyway.]]

** Moving away from RealLife and back to the game's plot: It would appear that after [[NoodleIncident that incident in the Middle East]] there was a serious NuclearWeaponsTaboo going on. The US wanted a more "publically acceptable" (and arguably reusable) WMD system which proceeded to backfire spectacularly.

** I believe that the devs read statement "Lake Titicaca is this highest navigable lake in the world" and extrapolated the erroneous corollary "it therefore has a navigable connection to the ocean."
** Obviously it is a teleporting submarine.
*** Maybe the US got bought it from the same guys who gave the Russians their teleporting armoured divisions in ''Modern Warfare 3''?

** There main motivation appears to be territorial expansion and conquest, at least of the hemisphere. After that, who knows? [[ModernWarfare2 They might engage in a pointless and unwinnable war on another continent]] or they might be content. [[TakeOverTheWorld Standard badguy motivation, really.]] Which is a bit of a waste, since they could have been after revenge for American imperialism (think rhetoric of Hugo Chavez) or, since they controlled Mexico, a return of the area stolen in the Mexican-American War (California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, all places that they invaded). They could have played with the fact that the US, a former superpower, is now on the receiving end of gunboat diplomacy. But since these motives weren't fleshed out at all... it all comes off kind of like a [[UnfortunateImplications racist argument against Hispanic immigration or something.]]

* How exactly were the U.S. able to build a thousand-mile long wall alongside No Man's Land given that they are under constant attack by the Federation, much of their infrastructure was devastated by ODIN, and that the Federation is likely occupying the Texan and Gulf oil reserves which would deny the U.S. a key source of resources for such a massive project.

** The Canadian special forces unit is called Joint Taskforce-2 (JTF-2), they only appear in ''MedalOfHonor''.

** Assuming they aren't busy trying to keep their countries from suffering societal collapse due to energy cutoff and probable wartime devastation, what exactly do you expect NATO to be capable of doing once you take America out of the equation? European countries have reduced their abilities to project force to such an extent that what little they have cannot be quickly moved across the Atlantic. All this also assumes NATO exists as an alliance anymore. Its Asian counterpart SEATO was dissolved in 1977, so its not impossible.

* During operation Homecoming was fort Santa Monica lost to the federation? Drone control was taken out and US forces where retreating.

** HealingFactor.

* Can someone explain to me why the secretary of defense would order a debriefing in Las Vegas? Surely there is a more secure meeting place away from the frontlines?

* Existance of ODIN. Why did the US construct a space-based weapon of mass destruction in violation of multiple international treaties?

** It would appear that after [[NoodleIncident that incident in the Middle East]] there is a serious NuclearWeaponsTaboo going on. The US wanted a more "publicaly acceptable" (and arguably reusable) WMD system which proceeded to backfire spectacularly.

** This is a rather controversial area. Article IV of The Outer Space Treaty prohibits "any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction" in orbit. WMD is not defined for these purposes, but kinetic rods capable of killing cities would seem to qualify. The US argues it is not going that far but others are not convinced. Some analysts argue the reason the Chinese are doing a lot of research into anti-satellite weapons is to counter this perceived US threat.

** The Treaties only prohibit the the so called "Nuclear Proliferation of Outer Space," conventional weapons on the other hand are perfectly legal. So legal in fact, the United States Air Force is actually working on a system called Prompt Global Strike (P.G.S.) which is designed to deliver a precision conventional weapon strike anywhere in the world within one hour. One of the proposed payloads for such a system is a Kinetic Strike or "Rods from God" if you will. They even named the project after the Viking God Thor, so we may very well have an an Orbital Weapons Platform very similar to Odin [[spoiler:or Loki]] by 2017.

** The Treaties only prohibit the NUCLEAR proliferation of space. Conventional weapons are fine in fact the United States Air Force is actually working on a system called Prompt Global Strike (P.G.S.) which is designed to deliver a precision conventional weapon strike anywhere in the world, in one hour. One of the proposed payloads for such a system is a Kinetic Strike, or "Rods from God" if you will. They even named the project after the Viking God Thor, so we may very well have an an Orbital Weapons Platform very similar to Odin or [[spoiler:Loki]] by 2017.