After the war game was restarted, its participants were forced to follow a script drafted to ensure a Blue Force victory. Among other rules imposed by this script, Red Force was ordered to turn on their anti-aircraft radar in order for them to be destroyed, and during a combined parachute assault by the 82nd Airborne Division and Marines air assaulting on the then new and still controversial MV-22, Van Riper's forces were ordered not to shoot down any of the approaching aircraft

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critical support to the loser who oversaw the restarted exercise, making sure that no face was lost, no lessons were learned, no changes were necessary, and thus ensuring the american surrender 24 years later