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Old 08-15-10, 02:32 PM   #8
ETR3(SS)
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
This is a 2002 summary of events during the greatest wargame excercise ever, Millennium Challenbge 2002. That is the famous excercise that fantasised about a war against a ME-style Gulf-region enemy, and saw the orginal American Navy fleet decisively wiped off the face of the ocean. The Pentagon then stopped and started new, this time heavily scripting the way in which the leader of OpFor was to command his troops and what to do and how to behave - so that the Blue Forces would eventually claim a shining, glorious victory with friendly assistance by OpFor that was demanded to follow the screenplay and act stupid.
Yep sounds about like our military. I remember when ever we played games everything was scripted for one side or the other to win. In the end the only thing that improves is morale, because "we killed the other guys cause we're betterz lol." granted we had an advantage being the submarine, but come on how do you expect these skimmers to find a real submerged threat ever. Case in point, the Chinese subs that got within our CVBG's "comfort zone."
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