The Wikipedia article doesn't really communicate what happened very well IMHO. This experiment was never designed to examine the combat capabilities of the US N

The Wikipedia article doesn't really communicate what happened very well IMHO. This experiment was never designed to examine the combat capabilities of the US Navy. It was designed to test concepts related to a new concept called Net-centric warfare. It was a new concept to handle information and the sharing of information. In order to test this concept under different conditions, things had to be scripted so that those conditions would occur and the information dissemination concept could be examined. What this Van Riper did is similar to helping somebody practice football kick returns, but instead of helping, just repeatedly running regular offensive formations. I'm not necessarily saying Riper was wrong, but I just wanted to point out that the motivation for the reset runs deeper than "the games were designed to let blue win".