"In 2002, the U.S. Navy held a large simulated war game, the Millennium Challenge, to test scenarios of attacks on the fleet by a hypothetical Gulf state  [...]

"In 2002, the U.S. Navy held a large simulated war game, the Millennium Challenge, to test scenarios of attacks on the fleet by a hypothetical Gulf state  [...]. The leader of the red team employed brilliant asymmetric tactics resulting in 16 U.S. ships, including two supercarriers, going to the bottom in a very short span of time. The Navy stopped the war game, prohibited the red team from using these tactics and then reran the exercise declaring victory on the second day." This reads like something out of Yossarian's diary.. It seems the only reason there isn't a war on between the superpowers is that it's economically more beneficial to not have one at the moment. Hundreds of billions of dollars are pumped into outmoded solutions, but at least we don't have to sink the ships so that the contractors can sell more of them -- the government happily keeps buying more. The bankers' loans, the unions' workers and the lobbyists' friends are all humming along finely.