The military exercise in the gulf that you mention is the near-equivalent of what Kirk did in the Kobayashi Maru scenario, so I'd be careful with how much you d

The military exercise in the gulf that you mention is the near-equivalent of what Kirk did in the Kobayashi Maru scenario, so I'd be careful with how much you draw from that inference. There are certainly lessons to learn, don't get me wrong, but unless you have the details on the war game and the training to understand what happened and why then you're guessing just as much as anyone else is. Besides, the government can easily get human informants; there's no such thing as a truly trusted courier system.