For fun and Tinnies, compare this Aug. 16th Army Times story - about how we don't even play war games without bogus fakery:
War games rigged?
General says Millennium Challenge 02 ‘was almost entirely scripted’
By Sean D. Naylor
[Army] Times staff writer
The most elaborate war game the U.S. military has ever held was rigged so that it appeared to validate the modern, joint-service war-fighting concepts it was supposed to be testing, according to the retired Marine lieutenant general who commanded the game’s Opposing Force.
That general, Paul Van Riper, said he worries the United States will send troops into combat using doctrine and weapons systems based on false conclusions from the recently concluded Millennium Challenge 02. He was so frustrated with the rigged exercise that he said he quit midway through the game.
He said that rather than test forces against an unpredictable enemy, the exercise “was almost entirely scripted to ensure a [U.S. military] ‘win.’ ”
- with the cautiously worded Aug. 19th choker in the New York Times:
In the end, officials said, the joint American forces — Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy and Special Operations — were declared victorious.
When anonymous "officials" declare something and the something mysteriously requires presentation in the passive, you might as well have Arthur Andersen reporting.
Toss a Tinnie.
