CNN: War Game Plays Poorly Against Pantomime Foe

Devon Gales suffered a paralyzing neck injury during a September football game at Georgia. (AP Photo/Richard Hamm/Athens Banner-Herald)

Jake Tapper and Jennifer Rizzo reporting for CNN:

U.S .troops, he said, had immediate problems surging into the North Korea-like country. V-22 Ospreys zoomed U.S. soldiers deep beyond the border, but with reinforcements so far behind they were quickly surrounded by the enemy and needed to be pulled out. American troops eventually made it over the border, but with nuclear sites located in populated areas, their mission became more difficult. U.S. forces made humanitarian aid drops to draw people out of the cities.

“They made the game as difficult as possible to really test their capabilities,” said McLeary. “They’re very concerned about being able to get troops who can deal with nuclear and chemical weapons where they need them quickly. And the fact [is] that over the past ten or twelve years, they haven’t really invested in that capability so much. They’ve invested in counterinsurgency, ground vehicles, IED threats, but they haven’t really spent a lot of time and money modernizing their nuclear and chemical troops.”

In the end it takes the U.S. a force of 90,000 troops and 56 days to secure “North Brownland’s” nuclear weapons.

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