Terminator and Fourth Generation Warfare: Skynet is doomed to lose
Terminator: Salvation imagines, finally, the war with that machine enemy that John Connor has prepared for just about all his life to fight. Connor was put through all manner of training by his mother in preparation for the war after Judgment Day, in addition to at least two attempts on his life by Terminators, putting all that training to the test, which Connor of course passed or he wouldn’t be here. Of course, Connor will probably stop talking about his feelings when the first bomb is dropped on Judgment Day. T:S imagines a never-ending conflict through time and space in which a coldly calculating machine attempts to wipe out an insurgency by sending back its toughest operators before the war even starts to kill the potentially toughest people before they are tough. More on the flaws in that plan later. But chronologically (in one sense) the first Skynet's worst plan is Marcus Wright, a character who is apparently supposed to be the ultimate sleeper agent, built at some