War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare
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- #Military Vulnerabilities
- #War Games
- #Declassified Reports
- A 2002 war game after-action report revealed U.S. military vulnerability to low-tech warfare, influencing later conflicts like the 2003 Iraq invasion.
- The Millennium Challenge 2002 exercise, costing $250 million, saw a simulated U.S. Navy battle group defeated in 10 minutes by unconventional commercial ship attacks.
- Marine Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, who led the anti-U.S. forces, criticized the exercise as 'rigged', and the document was partially declassified in 2024 after an 11-year review.