institutional-failure

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Between the Feb 11 Israeli warning and the fatal Feb 25 engagement, GAO records a Feb 16 software fix and a Feb 21 warning message, neither specifying a safe run-time limit

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · patriot-missile, gao-report, gulf-war, institutional-failure, human-factors
U.S. Patriot units declined to use external data recorders fearing shutdown; Israeli units used theirs and supplied the data that diagnosed the Dhahran clock-drift bug

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · patriot-missile, gao-report, gulf-war, institutional-failure, military-engineering
At Dhahran the Patriot clock-drift bug was flagged by Israeli data two weeks early, but the corrected software reached the battery one day after the fatal Scud

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, institutional-failure, human-factors
A 24-bit clock register, a warning that arrived two weeks early, and a software patch that arrived one day too late — the Dhahran Patriot failure

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · rounding-error, patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, institutional-failure