The value of war games and other stuff

NY Times (Yes, I am linking to a NY Times story, for positive not negative reasons) has a very good article about the Iranian boat incident and comparing it to the 2002 war games that the Pentagon put on. In the war game, a red team consisting of a number of small craft plus cruse missiles swarmed against the blue team which had expensive and very capable navy ships. The red team one. Blue team lost cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers and amphibious ships. OUCH.

What the war game showed was how the US cannot let Iran or anyone else set the rules for the engagement and if they threaten the Navy, the Navy needs to shoot back sooner then later.

If Iran keeps trying to provoke the US, they will succeed because the Navy would rather have to explain why it took out Iranian ships who were threatening US ships then why US ships are damaged or sunk.

Mark Steyn has another great article comparing the true master of change (capitalism) compared to the want-a-be change agents (politicians).

Have a good day.