{"article":{"id":43756,"heading":"The JC Penny War Report","author":"forward command poster","created":"2003-03-30 17:28:02","modified":"2013-11-10 23:51:52","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:51:52","article":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0<\/a>,2763,924497,00.html  <br>  <br> ==========================================================  <br><br>  <br>  <br> War game was fixed to ensure American victory, claims general  <br><br> Julian Borger in Washington  <br>  <br> Wednesday August 21, 2002  <br>  <br> The Guardian  <br><br> The biggest war game in US military history, staged this month at a cost of &pound;165m with 13,000 troops, was rigged to ensure that the Americans beat their \"Middle Eastern\" adversaries, according to one of the main participants.  <br><br> General Paul Van Riper, a retired marine lieutenant-general, told the Army Times that the sprawling three-week millennium challenge exercises, were \"almost entirely scripted to ensure a [US] win\".  <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0<\/a>,12271,778139,00.html\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Ages 5 and up.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/03\/commandpost2.jpg","filesize":"41.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/43756.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2003\/03\/commandpost2.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2003\/03\/commandpost2.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}