Politics as usual perhaps? Although, I think I did read about some kind of war games where Americans took on another airforce but were not allowed to use their normal long range weapons systems. (In F-15's I think...) The Americans lost but claimed that if they could have done what they were trained to do then it might have been different.
Rules have no place in those war games as far as I am concerned. You are supposed to find out what would happen if such and such happened! Let both sides throw everything they have at eachother. Otherwise, how the hell are you learning anything?
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