Who else mysteriously got this shoved back into their recommended feed four years later? Given current events this video is quite topical.

When you're young, healthy, and expendable in the 2020's:

“Afghanistan’s government at the time, the Taliban” yeah that aged like milk.

That excercise reminds me of the wargames conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy before embarking on the Battle of Midway.

Not to mention that destabilizing Iran would probably result in something like ISIS 2.0: Electric Boogaloo.

"It's less Iraq, and more Vietnam."

My dad told me this. (He did two tours of 🇮🇶🇦🇫)

Great timing for a recommendation KZfaq...

Man1: And how exactly does this help America?

“Look at how Iraq went. Video done.”

There's a whole lot of shenanigans going on with Millennium Challenge 2002, like the Red side having lightspeed motorcycle messengers (so their communications couldn't be intercepted), launching Exocet missiles from boats smaller than the missiles themselves, and the Blue side not being allowed to shoot Red's troop transports despite very much being able to, and Van Riper otherwise gaming the system to the extent they didn't really learn much except: A. The software they used to simulate the missiles and suicide boats had a couple of issues, and B. to not put Van Riper in charge of red team anymore.

This is suddenly becoming more relevant

"It's not likely it will happen, ever."

20 years later:

Man this video aged like fine wine

I think one massive factor feeding into the fury of the post-invasion insurgency that didn't get mentioned is the Basij (or the "Organisation for the Mobilisation of the Oppressed). With 11 million members, including 600,000 ready from frontline operations, it is a pre-built insurgency on a colossal scale.

No casus belil

I was thinking, "Man, he isn't going to bring up the 2002 challenge."

Who is here after the iranian attack?

And here we are... Being "randomly" recommended this again