It's apparently a little more controversial than that. There's a whole community of "truthers" that are committed to debunking the idea that Van Riper's tactics would have worked in the real world and accuse him of gaming the simulation and ruining the productiveness of this massive exercise by, more or less, using exploits. On the other hand, there are some other military people who say more or less that his job wasn't to make an objectively productive exercise, it was to win, and at that he excelled and fair's fair. The truth is probably a mixture of both, innovative tactics alongside semi-exploits that aren't applicable to the real world.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like Enders Game.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

His real job was to find exploits so that we could learn and mitigate them. If we learned and take steps to prevent what he did from working in the real world he did his job. If we didn't take steps (at least gain confidence that this isn't real world possible) then he failed.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Curious to know how the exploits would not be applicable in real world.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 weeks ago

Some of them would, some would not.

Such defeat can be attributed to various shortfall in simulation capabilities and design that significantly hindered Blue Force fighting and command capabilities. Examples include: a time lag in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information being forwarded to the Blueforce by the simulation master, various glitches that limited Blue ships point-defense capabilities and error in the simulation which placed ships unrealistically close to Red assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes, the one where a carrier group was attacked by ~~Iranian~~ OPFOR ground effect fighters while transiting the Straight of Hormuz resulting in a loss of the carrier and support ships.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The $100K rocket was never about warfare or strategy. It was just plain grift. Pork barrel politics all the way.

Ukraine is innovating the hell out of warfare because they’re desperate. They have no other choice: find ways to defeat the Russians as cheaply and effectively as possible or be conquered. I am so proud and impressed of their courage and ingenuity in the face of overwhelming odds.