David Axe, National Interest:
In 2002, the U.S. Military Conducted an Iran War Simulation. Iran Won.
How would this play out in real life?
As tensions escalate in the Persian Gulf region, it’s worth recalling a 2002 Pentagon war game in which a U.S. Marine Corps played the part of an enemy commander waging a bloody defensive campaign against a much more powerful U.S. force.
Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper’s own hodgepodge of troops, ships and planes was similar in organization and capability to Iran’s actual forces. Van Riper’s success in blunting a simulated American assault could reveal how Tehran might fight in the real world.
“The exercise was called Millennium Challenge 2002,” Blake Stilwell wrote for We Are the Mighty.
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