http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n2026.cfm ------------------- 16 U.S. NAVAL SHIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PERSIAN GULF! INCLUDES ONE AIRCRAFT CARRIER DESTROYED
"During the summer of 2002, in the run-up to President Bush's invasion of Iraq, the US military staged the most elaborate and expensive war games ever conceived. Operation Millennium Challenge, as it was called, cost some $250 million, and required two years of planning ... it was set in the Persian Gulf, and simulated a conflict with a hypothetical rogue state. The "war" involved heavy use of computers, and was also played out in the field by 13,500 US troops, at 17 different locations and 9 live-force training sites. All of the services participated under a single joint command, known as JOINTFOR. The US forces were designated as 'Force Blue', and the enemy as OPFOR, or 'Force Red'. The 'war' lasted three weeks and ended with the overthrow of the dictatorial regime on August 15."
"At any rate, that was the official outcome. What actually happened was quite different, and ought to serve up a warning about the grave peril the world will face if the US should become embroiled in a widening conflict in the region ..."
This is not the first time that the American high command has fudged the results of a war gaming exercise because the real results would be very embarrassing to all U.S. leadership, from the White House down to the Pentagon. In the early years of the Clinton Administration, America's top guns -- her elite fighter pilots -- engaged in an war gaming exercise with Israeli pilots. The American aces were humiliated, so much so that the Pentagon discreetly asked the Israeli government not to publicize the results! The story I read was very small and buried deeply in our local paper.
Now, let us return to this news story. The American officer leading the "enemy" -- the "Force Red" team -- was "the straight-talking Marine commander who had been brought out of retirement to lead Force Red. His name was Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, and he had played the role of the crazed but cunning leader of the hypothetical rogue state ... In the first days of the 'war', Van Riper's Force Red sent most of the US fleet to the bottom of the Persian Gulf." (Ibid.)
The tactics adopted by this Marine Corps general were astounding and they produced "The Worst US Naval Disaster Since Pearl Harbor".
"The war game was described as 'free play', meaning that both sides were unconstrained, free to pursue any tactic in the book of war in the service of victory ... Much of the action was computer-generated. But representative military units in the field also acted out the various moves and countermoves. The comparison to a chess match is not inaccurate. The vastly superior US armada consisted of the standard carrier battle group with its full supporting cast of ships and planes. Van Riper had at his disposal a much weaker flotilla of smaller vessels, many of them civilian craft, and numerous assets typical of a Third World country." (Ibid.)
"But Van Riper made the most of weakness. Instead of trying to compete directly with Force Blue, he utilized ingenious low-tech alternatives. Crucially, he prevented the stronger US force from eavesdropping on his communications by foregoing the use of radio transmissions. Van Riper relied on couriers instead to stay in touch with his field officers ... At every turn, the wily Van Riper did the unexpected. And in the process he managed to achieve an asymmetric advantage ... Astutely and very covertly, Van Riper armed his civilian marine craft and deployed them near the US fleet, which never expected an attack from small pleasure boats ... Force Red's prop-driven aircraft suddenly were swarming around the US warships, making Kamikaze dives. Some of the pleasure boats made suicide attacks. Others fired Silkworm cruise missiles from close range, and sunk a carrier, the largest ship in the US fleet, along with two helicopter-carriers loaded with marines ... the Navy was unprepared. When it was over, most of the US fleet had been destroyed. Sixteen US warships lay on the bottom, and the rest were in disarray. Thousands of American sailors were dead, dying, or wounded.
"If the games had been real, it would have been the worst US naval defeat since Pearl Harbor." (Ibid.)
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The Rise of Persia (Iran)by TheKourosh19906,838 views
SCREW IRAN
benjico123 1 month ago
@TheKingnek You sound like an expert bub, you spell "rite" incorrectly and talk about Ron Paul. Who's he? You can bet your ass I know who my enemies are as well as the enemies of the United States.
clintonearlwalker 2 months ago
@clintonearlwalker hmmm, nice manners, nowhere in my reply is there any hint that I am insulting u, luckily many Americans are waking up and going to elect Ron Paul, idiots like u need to stop watching Fox News or MSNBC, it is a fake right versus left thing, u didnt know that rite moron? wake up, Iran is not your enemy u faggoty bigot!
TheKingnek 2 months ago
@TheKingnek I think you are full of shit. The US has hundreds of drones as well as satellites in orbit over Iran everyday. Drones are expendable, that why we use them. That drone could have just as easily been about 50 bombers eliminating all Iranian electronic capabilities as took place in Baghdad and Kabul. That was without using hundreds of thermo nuclear warheads.
clintonearlwalker 2 months ago
@clintonearlwalker I think it is more than that, Iran now has the capability to match US through electronic warfare, something that really surprises me, the captured drone was hijacked, not shot down!
TheKingnek 2 months ago
@13hares Clearly, except for the part where the US could wipe Iran and the rest of middle east from the face of the Earth in a few hours.
clintonearlwalker 2 months ago
@clintonearlwalker but not in iran. Clearly Americans cant touch them.
13hares 2 months ago
Sounds like the same old raghead bullshit and propaganda. There are still American troops in Baghdad and Kabul.
clintonearlwalker 6 months ago