wow I am behind the times, the 2002 Millenium Challenge was a stinging defeat for the US.
Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document, demanding a response within 24 hours. Thus warned of Blue's approach, Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships. This included one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected.[1
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10 years later & they are armed with the best anti ship weapons in the world & the US Navy has NO DEFENCE.
This guy on Kos really does a comprehensive job on what would happen with a Iran war, no good news anywhere.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/19/1075317/-We-can-t-win-a-war-with-Iran-not-if-they-have-half-a-brain
At any rate, leave Iran alone.
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