US Forces didn’t shoot back lol
The exercise is a joke.
Exactly. War games are often done to test a specific thing or group of things...depending on the established “rules” in a gamed situation and how people get around the rules.
We used to do models and simulations for NATO exercises. There was a simulation program where a classroom of GIs fought a war on a sim computer program. A couple of wiseguy soldiers (there’s always a few) figured out how to hack the program and won every engagement. Was pretty funny!