I mean, Red team won because blue team's tactics haven't changed since the cold war.
The other decisive factor was that blue team lost the ability to use networked communications from the outset. We know that Chinese and even Russian doctrine is to counter, not necessarily match our capabilities.
“We basically attempted an information-dominance structure, where information was ubiquitous to our forces. Just like it was in the first Gulf War, just like it has been for the last 20 years, just like everybody in the world, including China and Russia, have watched us do for the last 30 years,” Hyten said according to Defense One. “Well, what happens if right from the beginning that information is not available? And that’s the big problem that we faced.”
I mean, Red team won because blue team's tactics haven't changed since the cold war.
The other decisive factor was that blue team lost the ability to use networked communications from the outset. We know that Chinese and even Russian doctrine is to counter, not necessarily match our capabilities.
A pretty good summary
Blue should have been trying out many options. How else can they figure out what works best? That weak ass quote was feigning military weakness.
That's the problem is it not? Fighting yesterday's war ....