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To: blam
Back in 2002 the Pentagon created an wargame exercise like this, called Millenium Challenge. Playing the role of Ahmadinejad was a retired US Marine Colonel and Vietnam hero, Paul Van Riper. Van Riper was supposed to do things the normal way and get squashed. Instead, he decided to be creative. Here's how the UK paper The Guardian put it:

Van Riper had at his disposal a computer-generated flotilla of small boats and planes, many of them civilian, which he kept buzzing around the virtual Persian Gulf in circles as the game was about to get under way. As the US fleet entered the Gulf, Van Riper gave a signal - not in a radio transmission that might have been intercepted, but in a coded message broadcast from the minarets of mosques at the call to prayer. The seemingly harmless pleasure craft and propeller planes suddenly turned deadly, ramming into Blue boats and airfields along the Gulf in scores of al-Qaida-style suicide attacks. Meanwhile, Chinese Silkworm-type cruise missiles fired from some of the small boats sank the US fleet's only aircraft carrier and two marine helicopter carriers. The tactics were reminiscent of the al-Qaida attack on the USS Cole in Yemen two years ago, but the Blue fleet did not seem prepared. Sixteen ships were sunk altogether, along with thousands of marines. If it had really happened, it would have been the worst naval disaster since Pearl Harbor.

So after he routed his opponents, the Pentagon brass got together and decided the middle eastern dictator would never do that and declared a do-over. And this time, they rigged it so he had to do things their way. And of course, they routed him this time.

Will Ahmadinejad play by those rules or will he think outside the box?

39 posted on 12/29/2011 8:32:13 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: pepsi_junkie
Will Ahmadinejad play by those rules or will he think outside the box?

He has one critical advantage over Saddam and other mideast dictators, he's not an Arab.

56 posted on 12/29/2011 9:24:46 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: pepsi_junkie
Will Ahmadinejad play by those rules or will he think outside the box?

I guess that depends on whether or not he or a top advisor is reading this thread...

And I hope he gets the ZOT. ;-)

Cheers!

86 posted on 12/29/2011 10:29:18 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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