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Well, not fighting a modern war is also a very nice way of winning!

 In reply to Moussambani: notice that, during code red, the hacker can
easily protect the president by being adjacent to it. The president is, as
stated, capable of surviving an indirect hit with a strategic nuclear
weapon, and the hacker would prevent it from being directly targeted.
 Still, escalation does indeed compromise significantly a player's
chances. Sometimes the first strike advantage is worth the damage, if
one's prepared for it, sometimes it isn't.
 I rather enjoy that calculating retaliatory capabilities plays a larger
role that piece-versus-piece tactics in this variant. It's faithful to the
chosen theme.