I would like to see how they “gamed” it. Military history of “gaming” is replete with stories of people who went outside the established “rules”.
In real life, “rules” are and should be broken, and intelligent commanders keep those things in mind. In games, that doesn’t always happen due to the structure of the game because they may be trying to test a narrow group of situations.
If we did go to war with Iran, I prefer our chances to successfully wipe out the ports, facilities and infrastructure to a very high degree.
Doesn’t mean it won’t cost us lives. Doesn’t mean they won’t initate terror campaigns around the world to attack our interests. Doesn’t mean we wouldn’t lose ships, planes, and men.
But in the end, they will not win.
There was similar exercise done pre WWII using an attack on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. Carrier were involved, but the rules stated they had to stay with the battleships during the attack. The commamder the Saratoga broke off and with one support vessel attacked the canal from the SW and destroyed the Pacific facing facilities effectively shutting down the canal. The navy brass cried foul, the changed the parameters so the defenders prevailed and all was right with the world. The Japanese Admiralty was part of the observing group. One might assume they took away a different lesson than our battleship oriented admirals did.
General Lee’s objective on invading the North was not to win the war. It was to cause enough damage and death to force a truce. Americans don’t like casualties. Politicians today would be tossed out for a handful of deaths. The best way to win against Iran is to collapse their economy. If we take significant casualties, Trump loses.
Yes in the end they would not defeat the US.
But you assume that is their goal. That is NEVER the goal in the Middle East. The goal is to kill as many of the enemy as possible.
You will fight your war differently if that is your goal.
You will shoot 300 cruise missiles at a carrier group at the same time. You will attack with hundreds of small suicide boats. You will fill the air between Iran and Tel Aviv with a thousand rockets..all at one time.
Sure, Iran will end up in rubble—the small county “That stood up against US Jewish domination.” How does that play at the UN.
Captain Kirk. /nerd
” Military history of “gaming” is replete with stories of people who went outside the established “rules”.”
Patton in the pre-WWII war games in Louisiana is a good example.