This fact has always nagged me in context of the breathless stories about the "war game in Persian Gulf" and IRGCs swarm of speedboats. The story of the famous

This fact has always nagged me in context of the breathless stories about the "war game in Persian Gulf" and IRGCs swarm of speedboats. The story of the famous war game is repeatedly mentioned (even here on HN) but rarely the facts intrude to deflate the (imo) implied message: "this is why we haven't done anything about IRI in the past 40 years." This also lets IRI push ridiculous propaganda on Iranians showing them boats circling a mock aircraft carrier. Are IQs really dropping globally? Sometimes I swear there is a pas de deux going on between these apparent enemies.