>>14583
>Mosaic Defense system
The "Every Indian is a Chief" strategy, ruthless as fuck if they are all competent enough which seems the case here too, along with what you mention regarding long-term operations.
>and their solution was tons of speedboats with lots of ordnance for asymmetric warfare
Which is crystal clear when 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕦𝕞 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕘𝕖 happened, and i agree that the facts are what you mention, but by that argument i meant that the US organizers were pissed that Riper tricked the system rather unfairly specifically there in terms of the amounts of ordinance.
I took some time re-looking for stuff and wasn't conclusive but i do remember very well that some source, either a video or a text with pictars, had the specific "pre-made" bomb used by the boats and i always remembered the Exocet analogy BUT for starters let's go with the speedboat itself, the name i found for the class is an Ashurah-class speedboat which would be a "Boston Whaler" type (pimped small fishing boat) that is 6.7m long and can carry 1 ton, goes at sanic speedz of 90 knots aka 170kmh.
Now with the ordinance i recall it was some obscene stuff that wasn't that supposed to be mounted on a speedboat, the Exocet is 6m long and weights 800kg, so if Riper used the venerable anglo drowner we are saying he played the game hard as it would imply 2 more dudes driving at the very most, no fuel for a trip back and placing the thing exactly in the middle. If he had used some other thing like a russian KH-35, 4.5m long and 600kg, it sounds more plausible but not for the big carriers themselves, that would need the canonical ship rapist from the Iran-Iraq War, the Silkworm aka The Styx aka Termit P15, which is 6m long and 2600kg but if stripped down to its explosive charge form it's like 500.
I think you can get my point, they would need to re-design the speedboats' decks to fit the bomb and then drive on top of it at full speed IF they can keep buoyancy and balance at all due to a massive dong being placed in the middle. That's a realistic but very creative liberty Riper used to fuck the carrier group, and if we go by numbers he supposedly sank everyone in 10 minutes IRL, mostly because the group was in front of the beach already when the exercise happened and he had all the speedboats in position guarded inside naval depots with cargo primed to make anyone bumping with them meet Davy Jones. I think that's a factor in the overzealous reaction too, he literally finished the game in less than 15 minutes which tried to simulate the first hour or so from the first strike, which would result in specific situations that would be simulated in real time under live-fire games; he basically made half of them (120+ million dollars spent) useless as he had already dealt a massive dent on the simulator.
Also looking for the details about the speedboats i found an aspect i didn't remember, Riper did identify quickly what the Ospreys were doing and planned a countermeasure, because of the big motors that had a big-ish radar profile he added a new ruling in that big ass signatures, presumably at low altitudes, were Ospreys with valuable stuff so he ordered shooting missiles at them indiscriminately knowing they weren't fast enough and couldn't climb steeply.
So he was interrupted and told to stop doing that, the argument was around the idea he couldn't shoot at them because he wasn't supposed to see them.
lol also while looking for Exocet info i stumbled upon an article/book excerpt about how the Argentinians had to make-do trying to make the missiles work because they got them without the instructions due to the embargo happening mid-purchase. Very interesting story, even has a moralistic ending jej
>they really were just making a joke out of what should've been a genuine exercise
It seems the players were genuine about trying to make an exercise but the creators were adamant about the set-piece factor and generals being inflexible towards their doctrine, both leaders were creative but Red was punished way more than Blue, supposedly the latter had made big plans on spotting AA defenses but after the organizers saw how much time he was spending trying to take them out, they just ordered Red to put all their assets visible on the surface, no hiding them at all which made Blue's original plan inconsequential.
>Come to think of it there was similar expectation
Venezuela got them cocky, while on paper that country represents a formidable foe in terms of the long-run of the conflict, in reality Venezuela is under a cuban/chinese/stalinist flavor of communism which means control by demoralization and subsistence which translated means most of its population is too hungry and demoralized to do anything at all, ideologically dead due to the vast inconsistencies of their leaders so it's not even a pious existence and the elite class is too corrupt to be loyal to a cause. So in practice the US only had to bribe the underlings and smash the windows to have them fold themselves. No amount of advanced weaponry and mastery of the terrain can overcome a soldier who is 0% convinced of his country or ideals. At least the Iranians are hard boiled in conflict and a somewhat consistent ideological background that has seen the degeneracy of not doing that, Venezuelans' ideological conflict had the solution that communism represented being, literally, an inflation of a little more than 800,000,000,000% (a 2000-era 1bs. = 1^17 bs. of today) and 10 million of the population gone (1/4 of the population), and that without being at war with anyone at all, with embargos coming "only" after their inflation was at 100,000%.
>Van Riper had the right ideas
He seemingly has a ton of experience in different types of conflicts, 1956-1997 supposedly, an instructor who served in Vietnam twice and was a marine battalion and company commander there until the late 60's, was thrown into Desert Storm as a marine colonel too.
Dude was a tried-and-proven element and when he participated he was already a recently retired 3-star general, he was not a small fry player and it is hilarious how the organizers didn't expect some type of monster given that he was experienced in confronting mentally hardcore suicidal combatants appearing out of nowhere from trees and rocks.
>>14587
>one of those Mein Kampf translators with a commentary on the book that is longer than the actual book
Oh they do exist, not long ago the book was copyright free and in my country it was re-published by tons of small-time houses, it was expectedly a good seller but i was laughing at the fact the official author is the commentary writer per law because his text is longer than Hitler's due to him writing the context after the war, conveniently forgetting Weimar and such. Because such notes are "essential" the author didn't seek copyrights for it so you know it's an ideological thing lol.
Long time ago some anon made a chart about which Hitler book to buy because one without commentaries appearing at the top and foot of the page are actually not common, i forget which one is it but be assured you will be put on a list if you order it from Amazon or somewhere else with your card.