From: http://www.oah.org/meetings/2003/roundtable/young.html

"To be sure, as Bob Buzzanco's work on the Vietnam War has taught us, the Pentagon always wants more troops, especially when things threaten to fall apart and the secretary of defense always wants to save money. And, as H.R. McMasters' book explained with respect to Vietnam, there is no tradition of principled resignation in the military. Actually, one general did quit, not the war, but the war-games which took place last summer. "Millenium Challenge 02" was the largest war game in U.S. military history. Two years in preparation, it cost over $250 million and involved 13,500 participants in a three week exercise intended to test Rumsfeld's strategic concepts. In the game, General Paul Van Riper, commanding the forces of "an unnamed Middle Eastern state," managed to sink much of the U.S. naval fleet through the use of unconventional tactics. At which point, the games were halted, the fleet re-floated and Van Riper walked out. "Instead of a free-play, two-sided game," he complained, "... it simply became a scripted exercise. They had a predetermined end, and they scripted the exercise to that end" (4) So the game began again and the unnamed Middle Eastern adversary duly lost the war. On the March 29, 2003, Lt. General William Wallace discussed the "bizarre" behavior of Iraqi guerrilla forces. The enemy, he observed, is "a bit different from the one we war-gamed against" (5). As Brig. General John F. Kelly ruefully told a reporter: "What we were really hoping was to just go through and everyone would wave flags and stuff.""