Pentagon conducts secret war game on Afghan options

[maddezmom]

Pentagon conducts secret war game on Afghan options
(AFP) – 14 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Top Pentagon military officers conducted a secret war game this month to evaluate the two primary military options considered under a broad White House review of the Afghan war, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Citing unnamed senior military officials, the newspaper said Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen led the exercise himself.

The game examined the likely outcome of sending 44,000 more troops into the country to conduct a full-scale counterinsurgency effort aimed at building a stable Afghan government that can control most of the country, the report said.

But it also examined adding 10,000 to 15,000 more soldiers and Marines as part of an approach that the military has dubbed "counterterrorism plus," the paper noted.

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[tekisui]

1. Exercise in futility.

[thunder rising]

2. This is not news. It's the same strategy that brought us enough nukes to destroy the earth x 150

I would doubt the model is valid. It most likely gently tilts statistics in the favor of more and bigger war.

[charlie and algernon]

3. they do wargames to test for EVERY scenerio

they've probably done wargames to simulate what would happen if 50,000 Canadian troops invaded New York and Michigan.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. How about a nice game of chess?