Washington, D.C., November 1, 2024 - A recently declassified “after-action” report from a 2002 war game “triggered internal warnings that the U.S. military was vulnerable to low-tech warfare,” according to an article in this week’s Washington Post written by National Security Archive fellow Nate Jones.
  • kittin [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    “Red Forces will not initiate any significant offensive actions except in response to Blue actions”

    If our enemy simply lies there and doesn’t respond, we can win.

    • ped_xing [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      There's winning and there's winning so hard that the officials rewrite the rules then and there.

  • vertexarray [any]
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    3 days ago

    Oh it's the millennium challenge 2002 report from Van Riper! that's cool, it's not even overlong.

    I get the impression that he hated the exercise design and wanted to emphasize that fact as much as possible, seems much more like a treatise on simulation design than on war