Declassified 2002 War Game Report Shows U.S. Navy Defeated in 10 Minutes by Low-Tech Tactics
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Summary
A declassified 2002 war game report reveals that a simulated U.S. Navy battle group was defeated in just ten minutes by an enemy using low-tech, unconventional tactics such as launching attacks from commercial ships. The findings, published in The Washington Post by National Security Archive fellow Nate Jones, triggered internal warnings about U.S. military vulnerability to asymmetric warfare. The postmortem came from a $250 million war game exercise.
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The simulated U.S. Navy battle group was defeated in ten minutes by an enemy that launched its attacks from commercial ships and using other unconventional means
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