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Remember when they ran that wargame and Iran sunk a fuckload of Navy ships using small inflatable craft, so the US rewrote the wargame to ensure a NATO victory?
Cuz I sure do lol.
This one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
Key point:
The region being the Persian Gulf. So the US had their aircraft carrier and ships basically on the Iranian coastline. This is not representative of the current situation, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is about 700km from Iranian shores currently, and the the US is not going to attempt an amphibious landing. Iran is not going to launch a speedboat assault over 700km of open ocean. Iranian options are limited to long range anti ship cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Long range kill chains are difficult.
If you look at it another way, the US learnt that you can't just sail through the Persian Gulf unopposed at the beginning of a conflict, due to the capabilities of Iranian short range anti ship missile swarms, and their speedboats, through this exercise. Though that is a massive waste of money and time to reveal the obvious. Hence restarting the exercise to ensure US victory under scripted conditions, so it doesn't appear to be a huge waste of money and time. The whole concept of such an exercise was inherently flawed based on incorrect assumptions of both US and Iranian military capabilities. A better exercise would have the US start further away and inch closer under air cover after airstrikes have already commenced, to test US left of launch defeat capabilities and if it's possible to sail a ship through the Persian Gulf or launch an amphibious assault if you hunt down the missile launchers and speedboats first. Or if such is always impossible without heavy losses given latent Iranian capabilities that survive initial airstrikes.
I think it was more recent.
This is definitely what you're thinking of.
Perhaps. I'm old so it all just blends together when the last two decades have been non stop madness.