![]() Held a year before the devastating Iraq intervention in 2003, meant the objective was either Saddam Hussein or the even more defiant and bigger US nemesis, the Islamic Republic of Iran.ĭuring the 23-day exercise, the Blue Team achieved most of its objectives of controlling the Red Country’s Sea Lines of Communications (SLOC), neutralizing its WMD assets, while leaving the regime itself significantly weakened, in the scenario that was projected to happen in 2007. 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces, watches the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) from the bridge wing of the coastal patrol ship USS Squall (PC-7) in the Persian Gulf on Nov. The “no-nonsense solid warfighter” Van Riper later went public after the exercise, when he was asked to give concessions to the Blue Team and his deployments being controlled by the neutral ‘White Cell’, led by retired US Army General Gary Luck. The person helplessly calling to inform his overwhelming force being reduced to dust by a poorly armed third world enemy, was US Army Lt Gen BB Bell, leading the ‘Blue Team’ of 350 personnel in a war simulation room.įila Image: Sinking Warship – Wikipedia Was Saddam Hussein The Target?Īnd it was the person receiving the call, General Buck Kernan of the now-defunct Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), who had praised and personally appointed the Opposing Forces (OPFOR) Red Team commander, US Marine Corps Lt Gen Paul Van Riper as a “devious sort of guy.” ![]() It couldn’t save the 19 ships, including the carrier, several cruisers, five amphibious ships from sinking, and the nearly 13,000 military personnel on board from going down with it – in a matter of 10 minutes.īut when the utter silence in the ‘command center’ is broken when the commander of the US force calls to say, “Sir Van Riper just slimed all of my ships,” it is revealed that it was just a war game simulation. The pride and joy of American radar and early warning technology, the Aegis system, is overwhelmed. The adversary, a third world country with an even inferior, often irregular force, swarms the entire US armada – speed boats missiles from the speed boats ground-based launchers missiles from commercial ships low flying planes with no radio communication to avoid detection low tech measures such as lights and motorcycle messengers to escape American Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and other smaller kamikaze speed boats packed with explosives. Deployed Around Russia – F-35 Test Pilot ‘Opens His Heart Out’ On The Might Of US Stealth Fighters Over J-20, Su-57 Jets The target is a Middle Eastern country, whose leader the US wants to submit to surrendering, failing which it would invade, destroy its military and occupy the nation. ![]() A full US Carrier Battle Group (CBG) steams into the Persian Gulf, with the full support of US naval, air and amphibious power. ![]()
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