XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Five tips for defending Earth right the first time

Barry writes, "After spending around fifteen hours of my first playthrough of XCOM : Enemy Unknown, I had all but completely lost Earth. My A team was annihilated, I was flat broke, UFO’s were ripping through my Raptors, my scientists and engineers were behind on projects and nearly every country abandoned the XCOM project."

[braydox21]

this was helpful, but i suppose one should learn from their mistakes and become stronger from that.