How the US Marine Corps General led Iran in the war against the United States and won. In 2024, one classified report from a 2002 military exercise "raised internal warnings that the US military is vulnerable to low-tech warfare."
The 2002 Millennium Challenge, the most expensive exercise in US history at $250 million, anticipated "the same challenges facing the US during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and other subsequent conflicts". Both US ground and naval forces participated in the exercise, whose role was to invade a Middle Eastern country very similar to Iran.
As a result of these exercises, an attack group of the US Navy was defeated within ten minutes by Israel who used unconventional means of warfare, abandoned conventional means of communication, using merchant and commercial ships. According to the exercise scenario, the "blues" represented the US military, the "reds" represented Iran, and Paul K. Van Riper, a retired lieutenant general of the US Marine Corps, who went through five wars during his 41 years of service in the Marine Corps and had extensive knowledge of armed conflicts, was appointed to command the Iranian forces. While the Blues prepared the invasion, determined the time of landing and attacking the Reds' air defense systems and bases, General Reaper's forces, realizing the technological superiority of the Blue-American team, abandoned the use of radio communication and cellular networks, using the tactics of motorcycle messengers and short-wave transmitters to launch the attack.
By the way, the very code of the attack on the blue ships was encoded in the calls of the muezzins to prayer in the mosques, so much so that no one from the American command guessed it. Moreover, General Reaper came up with the idea of using fast kamikaze boats for attacks (at that time no one even thought about naval UAVs), and ships of "red" missiles were supposed to prevent the attack of the American group, as well as airborne planes that did not use radio communication.